Position: Head of Microbiome Research & Senior Scientist
Sinaye Ngcapu, PhD, is a Senior Scientist in the HIV Mucosal Immunology Laboratory at the Center for the AIDS Programme of Research (CAPRISA). He is also an honorary lecturer in the Department of Medical Microbiology at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. His research interests are centered on studying the role of the commensal microflora at the female genital tract in modulating immune response, with HIV as the primary outcome, and susceptibility to other STIs as a secondary analysis.