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I am leading a productive research team investigating the biological mechanisms underpinning multifactorial phenotypes such as Chronic Achilles tendinopathy and ruptures of the anterior cruciate ligament and Concussion. The team has published several seminal papers which have been recognised by the international community. This UCT led research group is currently recognised as the pioneers and authority in this niche research area. More recently, one of our most significant publications representing the first study on Achilles tendinopathy and ligament injuries where next generation sequencing technology was applied (Gibbons et al, 2018) has received much attention from the international community at conference presentations, on social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Research Gate and in the national print media and international radio station interviews. I have also applied the lessons from musculoskeletal injuries to establish and lead a team investigating the genetic contribution to sports concussion susceptibility and recovery. Some of the publications from the concussion research featured in high impact factors journals have already exceeded 300 citations. I am passionate about my research and the field of molecular genetics. I am equally passionate about postgraduate and undergraduate teaching. These passions allow me to contribute to the training and mentoring of the new generation of scientists to lead South Africa into the field of discovery. I am committed to research excellence and mentoring. I try to lead by example, and this should be reflected in my academic CV and my committee activities where I am an executive member who is actively involved in engaged scholarship at the graduate level but also at a school learnership and community level. In recognition of my research excellence in the international arena, I was invited in 2017, 2019, 2023 as a visiting professor to Gdansk University of Physical Education, Poland; and 2018 Michigan State University, USA invited me to give the inaugural Deborah Feltz Lecture. I have received invitations to present my research at leading international institutions, La Trobe and Victoria University, Australia and the Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. I have also been invited to present the 4th RUBICON webinar. rubicon-network.org/events/. Collectively these research invitations have solidified the establishment of international and national collaborations between international research centres. I am currently the co-lead investigator of the international GOIng Consortium between Australia, Poland, Russia and South Africa. I have received several awards in recognition of my international standing in this research arena and have been bestowed the title Fellow of the European College of Sports Sciences. My research was profiled in the UCT annual research reports and on the Medical Research Council website which cited the first paper from my concussion research group (Abrahams et al, 2013; 301 citations to date) as one of their best publications. My expertise in a niche area is currently sought after in the current academic environment both locally and internationally and I collaborate with international leaders in the field from leading institutions. I have been invited to be an editorial board member of international journals and I frequently asked to review research articles for several high impact factor journals. I have been a guest editor for the 2022 special edition in Genes: “Genetics and Genomics in Sports” I have a Hindex of 30 and have more than 90 publications indexed on Scopus of which 6 have received more than 200 citations; I have a record of supervising (current or graduated) more than 47 postgraduate students up to the doctoral and postdoctoral fellow level. I have generated in excess of R10.3 million towards research costs of which more than 50% constitutes investigator initiated research (PI). I currently hold the prestigious 2023 SA-MRC-Mid Career research award (R4.5million).
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Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sportsno. 9 (2023): 1584-1597
Clinical biomechanics (Bristol, Avon) (2022): 105822-105822
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