Researchers/Supervisors
Robert Krause
Path-to-Independence Awardee
Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI), Durban, South Africa
Robert Krause is a Research Associate in the Leslie Laboratory at the Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI), Durban, South Africa. His research interests span communicable diseases, with a background in malaria diagnostics during his PhD. He has also contributed to multiple SARS-CoV-2 studies during the COVID-19 pandemic before transitioning his focus to tuberculosis (TB).
His current work investigates B cell immunology in TB, particularly within the human TB lung. He studies immune cell aggregates containing B cells located near tuberculous lesions, aiming to understand whether these structures contribute to controlling TB infection or whether they may instead support disease progression.