Publications of our Larger-Scale Research Grant Holders
Larger-Scale Grant Holders:
Prof Jonathan Blackburn
Title of the project:
Publication:
- Identification and validation of a novel autoantibody biomarker panel for differential diagnosis of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma published in Frontiers in Immunology (2025)
Prof Christopher Mathew & A/Prof Michael Urban
Title of the project:
Genetic risk factors for breast cancer in South Africa: A discovery, testing and counselling pathway
Publications:
- Breast Cancer: Genetic Risk Assessment, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics in African Populations published in Annual Reviews (2025)
- Genome-wide Association Study Identifies Common Variants Associated with Breast Cancer in South African Black Women published in Nature Communications (2025)
- Breast Cancer Genetic Services in a South African Setting: Proband Testing, Cascading and Clinical Management published in Cancer Medicine (2025)
- Application of genetic testing criteria for hereditary breast cancer in South Africa published online in Breast Cancer Research and Treatment (2025)
- Prevalence and Reclassification of Genetic Variants in South African Populations with Breast Cancer published in Genes, Chromosomes and Cancer (2024)
A/Prof Estelle Verburgh
Title of the project:
Publications:
- Point-of-care core needle biopsy pathway for early diagnosis of lymph node masses: comparative costing of a scalable pathway published in Health Eco Review (2026)
- Early-stage Hodgkin lymphoma in Cape Town, South Africa: prognostic risk factors at diagnosis and treatment outcomes published in BMC Cancer (2025)
- Correction to: Early-stage hodgkin lymphoma in Cape Town, South Africa: prognostic risk factors at diagnosis and treatment outcomes published in BMC Cancer (2025)
- Diagnostic use of abdominal ultrasound in detecting extrapulmonary tuberculosis or lymphoma in an HIV-endemic region published in Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine (2025)
- The diagnostic pathway to lymph node excision biopsy in an HIV- and tuberculosis-endemic region published in Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine (2025)
- Focused investigations to expedite cancer diagnosis among patients with lymphadenopathy in a tuberculosis- and HIV-endemic region published in AIDS (2023)
