This page describes Andre's collaboration with investigators in South Africa studying the effects of HIV on neural development in children.

People Involved

These are the people in Cape Town:Ernesta Meintjes- (joint-PI on the project) physicist in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Cape Town (UCT)Barbara Laughton- (also joint-PI) pediatrician at Stellenbosch University (sometimes abbreviated SUN) and Tygerberg Hospital (east of the city), where the children come for study.Ken Mbugua- graduate student in biomedical engineering. He visited the Martinos Center for a couple of weeks two or three years ago and now he's analyzing the spectroscopy data and the 5 year old morphometry data.Frances Robertson- Admins in Ernesta’s lab? set up data copying for usKeri Woods- Admins in Ernesta’s lab? Martha Holmes- demographics person (American. post-doc? did lot of analyses for spectroscopy. neuroscience person. well organized)Emmanuel Nwosu - graduate student using HIV data for thesis/dissertation.

History