Caroline Tiemessen

Caroline Tiemessen
Alma materUniversity of the Witwatersrand
Known forHIV research
Scientific career
InstitutionsNational Institute for Communicable Diseases
University of the Witwatersrand
ThesisThe Defectiveness of the Subgroup F Adenoviruses in vitro (1992)

Caroline Tiemessen is a virologist and researcher involved in HIV related research. She heads the Cell Biology Research Laboratory within the Centre for HIV and STIs at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases and is a research Professor in the School of Pathology at the University of the Witwatersrand (WITS).[1] Her research interests include the study of HIV vaccines and the search for an HIV cure in both children and adults.[2] In 2018 she was part of the research team involved with the transplantation of a liver from an HIV-positive woman to her HIV-negative child.[3]

  1. ^ "Caroline Tiemessen". www.witsalive.co.za. Retrieved 7 June 2024.
  2. ^ "Caroline T Tiemessen | Immunopaedia". Immunopaedia | Advancing global immunology education. 3 November 2020. Retrieved 7 June 2024.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference HIV Liver was invoked but never defined (see the help page).