Centre will train 100 African fellows
Stellenbosch University is to establish a pandemic research institute to be led by Tulio de Oliveira.
De Oliveira will remain the director of the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. The team at KRISP sequenced the more infectious beta variant of SARS-Cov-2 at the end of 2020.