Salim S. Abdool Karim

Salim Safurdeen Abdool Karim (born July 29, 1960 in Durban , South Africa ) is a South African epidemiologist and specialist in infectious diseases . It is internationally recognized.

Life

In 1983 Karim obtained an MBBCH from the University of Natal Medical School ( University of Natal ) in Durban , and in 1988 an MS from Columbia University , New York. 1991 Karim earned a PhD from the College of Medicine, South Africa and two further PhDs from the University of Natal, Durban in 1992 and 1999. In 2014 he was awarded the DSc (Med.) ( Honoris causa ) from the University of Cape Town .

He is married to Quarraisha Abdool Karim, with whom he previously worked in research.

Karim is Director of the Center for the AIDS Program of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), Vice Rector (Research) of the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban , South Africa, and Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University .

He is also an associate professor of medicine at Cornell University's Weill Medical College , an associate member of the Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University .

Karim was the chairman of the UNAIDS Scientific Expert Panel. He is a consultant to Lancet Global Health, Lancet HIV and The New England Journal of Medicine .

In CAPRISA he worked on numerous publications, especially on HIV / AIDS research. Karim's contributions to microbiocides over 20 years resulted in the CAPRISA-004 tenofovir gel test, which showed that antiretroviral drugs can prevent sexually transmitted HIV infections and herpes simplex virus 2 in women . However, these results did not hold up. His clinical research on the treatment of patients with TB- HIV co-infections has largely determined the international guidelines .

Karim is co-owner of patents in the field of HIV vaccines .

Honors

• Fellow of the Academy of Science of South Africa
• Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences
• Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology
• Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa
• Fellow of the World Academy of Sciences
• Foreign member of the United States Institute of Medicine
• President of the South African Medical Research Council
• Member of the Royal Society

Awards

• TWAS Prize in Medicine from the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World
• President's Award from the Drug Information Association for "Outstanding Achievement in World Health"
• Gold Medal Award from the Academy of Sciences of South Africa
• Outstanding Senior African Scientist Award (2011)
• John Dirks Canada Gairdner Global Health Award (2020)

literature

• SS Abdool Karim, K. Naidoo, A. Grobler, N. Padayatchi, C. Baxter, A. Gray, T. Gengiah, G. Nair, S. Bamber, A. Singh, M. Khan, J. Pienaar, W. El-Sadr, G. Friedland, Q. Abdool Karim: Timing of Initiation of Antiretroviral Drugs during Tuberculosis Therapy. In: New England Journal of Medicine. 362, 2010, pp. 697-706.
• L. Roberts, J.-AS Passmore, K. Mlisana, C. Williamson, F. Little, LM Bebell, G. Walzl, M.-R. Abrahams, Z. Woodman, Q. Abdool Karim, SS Abdool Karim: Genital Tract Inflammation During Early HIV-1 Infection Predicts Higher Plasma Viral Load Set Point in Women. In: Journal of Infectious Diseases. 205 (2), 2012, pp. 194-203.
• SS Abdool Karim (Ed.): HIV / AIDS in South Africa. 2nd Edition. University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, 2010, ISBN 978-0-521-14793-4 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ mailman.columbia.edu
2. ↑ search.who.int
3. ↑ caprisa.org
4. ↑ mailman.columbia.edu
5. ↑ UNAIDS Scientific Expert Panel 2013-2015 http://www.unaids.org/sites/default/files/media_asset/UNAIDS_Scientific_Expert_Panel_en.pdf
6. ↑ thelancet.com
7. ↑ thelancet.com
8. ↑ nejm.org
9. ↑ caprisa.org ( Memento of the original from March 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
10. ↑ "CAPRISA Trial Scoops USAID Award" Breakthrough Microbicide Gel Prevents HIV and Herpes in Women ", University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, January 31, 2014.
11. ↑ http://www.news24.com/Archives/City-Press/100-World-Class-South-Africans-20150429 City Press, Pretoria, September 24, 2014.
12. ↑ CAPRISA. "Eminent Scientist recognized for Exceptional Contribution to Science", CAPRISA - NEWS & EVENTS, Durban, 2014.
13. ↑ QA Karim, SSA Karim, JA Frolich et al .: Effectiveness and Safety of Tenofovir Gel, an Antiretroviral Microbicide, for the Prevention of HIV Infection in Women. In: Science. 329 (5996), 2010, pp. 1168-1174. doi: 10.1126 / science.1193748 . PMC 3001187 (free full text). PMID 20643915 .
14. ↑ news24.com
15. ↑ betablog.org
16. ↑ ^{a b} ul.ac.za
17. ↑ k-rith.org ( Memento of the original from March 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.