Cebile Lekhuleni

Cebile Lekhuleni is a Doctoral Student at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) since February 2020, focusing on clinical microbiology and infectious diseases. Prior to this role, Cebile served as a Staff Scientist at BARC Global Central Laboratory from November 2017 to April 2020 and worked as a Teaching Assistant at the University of the Witwatersrand from 2017 to November 2019. Experience also includes mentoring for the Targeting Talent Programme at the WITS Student Equity and Talent Management Unit between 2015 and 2017. Cebile holds a PhD in progress from the University of the Witwatersrand (2020-2024), an MSc in Microbiology and Biotechnology (2018-2020), a BSc (Honours) in Microbiology and Biotechnology (2017), and a BSc in Biochemistry & Cell Biology and Microbiology & Biotechnology (2014-2016).