Dr Carmen de Kock

Research project manager, South Africa

Dr de Kock obtained her BSc in Microbiology (1999) from Stellenbosch University (South Africa). She completed a BSc (Med) Hons Pharmacology (2003) and PhD in Pharmacology (2008) from the University of Cape Town (South Africa). She completed a PhD internship in Indigenous Knowledge Systems at the South African Medicinal Council. She pursued her research career through a postdoctoral fellowship in the Division of Clinical Pharmacology at UCT. She has more than ten years’ experience in malaria drug discovery and development and in vitro metabolism at the Drug Discovery and Development Centre (H3D), UCT. She is experienced bioanalytical analysis and working in an accredited laboratory. Currently she is employed as the project manager for the Hearing Impairment Genetics Study in Africa (HIGENES Africa) and coordinates research project activities in South Africa, Ghana, Mali, Cameroon, Rwanda and Sudan. She is busy completing a Masters in Public Health. A quote she loves and lives by is “Have patience with all things, but, first of all with yourself” Saint Francis de Sales.