Dr Scheepers, Cathrine

Dr Cathrine Scheepers is a Senior Medical Scientist in the Centre for HIV and STI’s at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases in Johannesburg, South Africa. She is also a Researcher in the Antibody Immunity Research Unit within the School of Pathology at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits). She holds a PhD (Virology) from Wits, together with an MPhil (Computational Biology) from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Her main area of research is focused on understanding antibody genetic diversity and antibody responses to infections, particularly HIV and SARS-CoV-2. Scheepers has over 18 peer-reviewed articles and supervises post-graduate students.