Ms Joseph, Lavania

Lavania Joseph is a Medical Scientist at the Centre for Tuberculosis at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases in Johannesburg, South Africa. She obtained a Master’s degree in Medical Microbiology from the University of KwaZulu-Natal and has since focused on Mycobacterium tuberculosis research.
Her current research interests include the application of next-generation sequencing for drug resistance prediction and surveillance, the validation of critical concentrations for new and repurposed drugs, identification of genetic determinants of resistance to these drugs, and the evaluation of new molecular platforms for the detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.