Ms Kekana, Dikeledi

Dikeledi Kekana is a Medical Scientist (Bioinformatics) who completed her honours degree at the Nelson Mandela University, majoring in Physiology. Her research project focused on the neuroinflamation in rats prenatally exposed to a high fat diet. Kekana completed a Master’s degree in medicine, focusing on infectious diseases and clinical microbiology from the University of the Witwatersrand. Kekana is currently working as a Bioinformatics Scientist at the National Institute of Communicable Diseases located in Johannesburg, South Africa. She is focusing on next-generation sequencing (NGS) data analysis of Viral genomes.