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Awards

August 2021 SAMRC Champion women

October 2020 Africa-Oxford Fellowship

June 2020 57th European Renal Association (ERA) Congress Top abstract presentation

December 2019 National Research Foundation Y2 Rating

June 2017 Africa Science Leadership Program Fellowship

July 2012 SEMDSA Best poster presentation

August 2022 Womandla Foundation’s Women in STEAM award 2022 (Science category)

January 2014 SA Department of Science and Technology (DST)/NRF Professional Development Program (PDP) Post-Doctoral Fellowship

January 2021 SAMRC Researcher Development Award

February 2020 ERA Travel Award

January 2018 NRF Thuthuka
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Other Memberships/Affiliations
Global Burden of Disease Collaboration
European Society of Hypertension
International Society of Hypertension
Society of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes (SEMDSA)
Future Africa
Journal of Public Health Nutrition
Applied Sciences (MDPI journal)

Degrees:

2014
Doctorate     Medical and Health Sciences incl Neurosciences

Publications resulting from Research
George, C., Echouffo-Tcheugui, J.B., Jaar, B.G., Okpechi, I.G., Kengne, A.P. 2022. The need for screening, early diagnosis, and prediction of chronic kidney disease in people with diabetes in low-and-middle income countries - A review of the current literature. BMC Medicine, 20:247.
Motshwari, D.D., George, C. Matshazi, D.M., Weale, C.J., Davids, S.F.G., Zemlin, A.E., Erasmus, R.T., Kengne, A.P., Matsha, T.E. 2022. Expression of whole blood miR-126-3p, -30a-5p, -1299, -182-5p & -30e-3p in chronic kidney disease in a South African community-based sample. Scientific Reports, 12:4107.
Motshwari, D.D., George, C., Matshazi, D.M., Weale, C.J., Davids, S.F.G., Erasmus, R.T., Kengne, A.P., Matsha, T.E. 2021. Novel Whole Blood MicroRNAs Predicting Chronic Kidney Disease in South Africans with Hypertension and Diabetes Mellitus. Applied Sciences, 11(16):7674.
George, C., Stoker, S., Okpechi, I., Woodward, M., Kengne, A.P. 2021. The Chronic Kidney Disease in Africa (CKD-Africa) Collaboration: Lessons from a new pan-African network. BMJ Global Health, 6(8):e006454.
Mendham, A.E., Goedecke, J.H., Zeng, Y., Larsen, S., George, C., Hauksson, J., Fortuin-de Smidt, M.C., Chibalin, A.V., Olsson, T., Chorell, E. 2021. Exercise training improves mitochondrial respiration and is associated with an altered intramuscular phospholipid signature in women with obesity. Diabetologia, 64(7):1642-1659.
Mendham, A.E., Larsen, S., George, C., Adams, K., Hauksson, J., Olsson, T., Fortuin-de Smidt, M.C., Nono Nankam, P.A., Hakim, O., Goff, L.M., Pheiffer, C., Goedecke, J.H. 2020. Exercise training results in depot-specific adaptations to adipose tissue mitochondrial function. Scientific Reports, 10 (1), 3785.
George, C., Matsha, T.E., Korf, M., Zemlin, A.E., Erasmus, R.T., Kengne, A.P. 2020. The agreement between fasting glucose and markers of chronic glycaemic exposure in individuals with and without chronic kidney disease: a cross-sectional study. BMC Nephrology, 21:32.
George, C., Mogueo, A., Okpechi, I.G., Echouffo-Tcheugui, J.B., Kengne, A.P. 2017. Chronic kidney disease in low-income to middle-income countries: the case for increased screening. BMJ Global Health, 29;2(2):e000256.

31st Scientific Meeting of the European Society of Hypertension (ESH) on “Hypertension and Cardiovascular Protection”
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31st Scientific Meeting of the European Society of Hypertension (ESH) on “Hypertension and Cardiovascular Protection”
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Cardiometabolic Health and Diabetes Africa Congress
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The Nutrition Society of South Africa Webinar
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57th ERA-EDTA Virtual Congress 2020
2025
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29th Scientific Meeting of the European Society of Hypertension (ESH) on “Hypertension and Cardiovascular Protection”
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28th Scientific Meeting of the European Society of Hypertension (ESH) on “Hypertension and Cardiovascular Protection”
2025
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International Diabetes Federation Congress
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2025
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31st Scientific Meeting of the European Society of Hypertension (ESH) on “Hypertension and Cardiovascular Protection”
2025
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29th Scientific Meeting of the European Society of Hypertension (ESH) on “Hypertension and Cardiovascular Protection”
2025
icon-pin-location Milan, Italy
28th Scientific Meeting of the European Society of Hypertension (ESH) on “Hypertension and Cardiovascular Protection”
2025
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26th Scientific Meeting of the European Society of Hypertension (ESH) on “Hypertension and Cardiovascular Protection”
2025
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26th Meeting of the Intentional Society of Hypertension
2025
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