Mark Nicol Med

Prof. Mark Nicol

University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

 

University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Mark Nicol is a medical microbiologist who holds the Wernher and Beit Chair of Medical Microbiology at the University of Cape Town and the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) of South Africa. He studied medicine and medical microbiology at the University of the Witwatersrand and completed his PhD in childhood tuberculosis in Cape Town. His research interests are in the pathogenesis and diagnosis of respiratory infection in children, evaluation and implementation of novel diagnostic tests for tuberculosis, the cascade of care for patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis and the human microbiome.