Academy of Science South Africa 2005/6 Annual Report

ASSAfShort Bio of Members■ Bernard Alexander Prior is Professor of Microbiologyand the former Chairman of School of Biological Sciencesat the University of Stellenbosch. He was the Director ofthe UNESCO Industrial Biotechnology.■ Otto Walter Prozesky is an honorary Professor inVirology at Pretoria and Witwatersrand Universities.He was formerly the Director of the National Instituteof Virology in Johannesburg, the Vice-Principal of theUniversity of Pretoria, and President of the MedicalResearch Council.■ Mapule F. Ramashala is the Chair of the MRC andformer Vice Chancellor of MEDUNSA.■ Raj Ramesar is Professor and head of the Division of HumanGenetics at the University of Cape Town. He is alsothe Director of the MRC Human Genetics Research Unit,and CANSA’s Colorectal Cancer Research Consortium.■ Mamphela Aletta Ramphele is the Chair of Circle CapitalVentures. She is a former Managing Director of theWorld Bank and former Vice-Chancellor of the Universityof Cape Town.■ Michelle Ramsay is Professor at the University of Witwatersrandand Head of the Molecular Genetics Laboratoryin the Division of Human Genetics at the National HealthLaboratory Services.■ Douglas Eric Rawlings is Professor and Head of theDepartment of Microbiology and Deputy Dean of theFaculty of Natural Sciences at the University of Stellenbosch.He was formerly a Professor of the MicrobiologyDepartment at University of Cape Town.■ Batmanathan Dayanand Reddy is Professor ofApplied Mathematics and Director of the Centre for Researchin Computational and Applied Mechanics, at theUniversity of Cape Town. He has served as Dean of theFaculty of Science, at the University of Cape Town.■ Priscilla Reddy is Professor and Researcher at the MedicalResearch Council.■ Carolus J. Reinecke was Professor of Biochemistry andVice-Chancellor, Potchefstroom University for CHE.■ Linda Marleine Richter is Executive Director of Child,Youth & Family Development at the Human SciencesResearch Council and an Honorary Professor at theUniversity of the Witwatersrand■ Terence John Robinson is a Professor of Zoology andHead of the Department of Botany and Zoology at theUniversity of Stellenbosch. He was a research associatein Dr David Ledletter’s laboratories at the Institute forHuman Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine at the TexasMedical Centre in Houston.■ Justus Christiaan Roux is Professor of African Languagesand Director of the Centre for Language and SpeechTechnology at Stellenbosch University. He has served asDirector of an NRF-funded Research Unit in ExperimentalPhonology at Stellenbosch University.■ Heinz Rüther is Professor for Geomatics at the Universityof Cape Town. He was Head of the Department ofSurveying at the University of Cape Town.■ Edward Peter Rybicki is a Professor in Microbiology inthe Dept of Molecular and Cell Biology and Member ofthe Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicineat the University of Cape Town..■ Roelf Feenstra Sandenbergh is Professor and Deanof the Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment andInformation Technology at the University of Pretoria.■ Lawrence Schlemmer is Executive Director of the strategicresearch company MarkData. He was Vice Presidentof the HSRC, Professor and Director of the Centre forPolicy Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand.■ Mary Cathrine Scholes is a Professor in the Schoolof Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences at theUniversity of the Witwatersrand. She has worked atNorth Carolina State University, the National Centre forAtmospheric Research, Colorado State University and inthe Amazon of Peru.■ Robert J. Scholes is a CSIR Fellow in the NaturalResources and the Environment division. He was a110Promoting Excellence in Science for Society