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Get2Natural Beauty

Get2Natural Beauty, also known as G2N is a cosmetic company co-founded by Phumelele Khumalo and Nosihle Dlamini. It was catalysed by the frustration in products that did not fulfil or satisfy our personal needs and goals for our hair and skin. The company produces face products made from botanical extracts that work in unison with the skin’s naturally produced oils to help create fresh, soft skin and a healthier complexion. The hair products consist of special healthy ingredients, from natural extracts such as natural butters and unique aromatherapy oils to formulate innovative oils specific

KasiConvocation

KasiConvocation is a company that was registered in July 2019 to operate in the social network space. It is based in Johannesburg. The company wants to set up a South African based social network platform that will be opened for use in South Africa, the Sub-Sahara region and in different countries around the world as the business grows. KasiConvocation will provide a number of products and services that will be useful for both social and business use.

The Director has identified an opportunity for ensembles like stokvels, co-operatives, burial schemes and small businesses that would benefit

French South African Agricultural Institute

The F’SAGRI initiative is aimed at creating an environment that supports and encourages high standards of academic endeavour with high throughput rates with regard to graduation and the creation of new knowledge through considerable research outputs. As such, the initiative is a two-pronged one that addresses both formal education and research collaboration.

The Circle of Global Business Women

Circle of Global Business Women is a global network of intelligent and innovative Women who are authentic in their endeavours to create a leadership shift globally.

Circle of Global Business Women supports the rise of Women leaders globally and urges them to shatter the glass ceiling in various fields. Circle of Global Business Women embodies a female wave of change and a power circle of Women leading that change.

Programmes;

Empowerment

Enterprise Development Programme for Business Women
Empowerment Programmes for Corporate Women, Entrepreneurs and Professional Women
Science

Aer-o-cure UV-C Mini

The UV-C MINI is a light commercial unit, perfect
for public spaces, office, home or any waiting area.
It’s designed to sanitize hand held items such as cellphones,
keys, wallets and even a PPE mask within 30
seconds using effective UV-C Ultraviolet technology.
Simply place the items on the tray inside the box,
place your hand over the touchless IR sensor on the
side to activate the UV-C light and 30 secs later, the
items will be successfully sanitized. Open the box and
remove your safe, sterilised items.
The UV-C MINI can either be wall mounted
or placed on a suitable surface and can be also

Citizen science-based remote parenting support for lifelong health during COVID-19 lockdown and beyond

Violence in families, including violence against children, and women are increasing in an alarming rate during COVID-19 pandemic-induced lockdown. This initiative will implement and evaluate parenting information dissemination, and interactive learning via facilitated parent-support group-based online discussions using text, audio, video, and visual messages. It aims to provide real-time access to parenting information, and interventions to reduce family violence while improving parent-child relationships and child wellbeing. Evidence-based parenting for lifelong health information (PLH) which

Regional Innovation Networking Platform

Grassroots innovators are innovative individuals that may not necessarily have the requisite educational background or infrastructure to promote the commercialization of their innovations. Their innovative capacity is often driven by necessity and in-depth knowledge of local challenges that could be solved with appropriate technology innovations. The Regional Innovation Networking Platform seeks to identify Grassroot Innovators in the Eastern Cape to support them with tools to help with the commercialization of those innovations. The iHUB is the leading organization and the implementing

Imvoome

Imvoome ( also known as consent ) allows users to secure their travel history, their symptoms self-assessment report, their official COVID-19 test results and any travel clearance or access authorisations issued by authorities. The platform makes it possible to approve and revoke consent to share verified data temporarily or permanently.

Design and testing of novel viral fusion inhibitors against SARS-CoV-2

This project has employed computational (in silico) methods to design a novel class of inhibitors against the SARS-CoV-2 virus (COVID-19). The project has employed state-of-the-art computer-aided drug design (CADD) methods to develop an initial library of putative small molecule inhibitors. Because the compounds are novel, our research group will spend the next 6-18 months synthesizing and characterizing several of the test agents to produce pure, well-characterized compounds for screening. This will be followed by biophysical studies to delineate the binding of the test compounds to the

Delft Imaging

Delft Imaging is a social enterprise and envisions a world in which everyone can benefit from the modern world advances in the field of healthcare. It is this belief that drives our mission to develop and deliver unique health innovations, particularly affordable, innovative diagnostic imaging devices, and e-health software that responds to the specific needs of vulnerable communities around the world. Our main solutions are X-ray systems, Artificial Intelligence software, Mobile Clinic, and Diagnostic Center. Over the past decade, Delft Imaging has particularly been focusing on the screening

Health facility-based observational studies to investigate interaction and overlap between SARS- CoV2, HIV-1 and M. tuberculosis infections (HIATUS)

This programme of projects is focused on understanding and providing information on the clinical presentation and pathogenesis of COVID-19 in the South African population.

Researchers in the HIATUS programme of four related projects will invite hospitalised COVID-19 patients to donate small extra samples of blood and cerebrospinal fluid during normal care procedures.

In the first HIATUS project, the team will investigate the SARS-CoV-2-specific response of T-cells and determine whether these responses correlate with disease outcomes. Results from this study could also provide the basis for

The University of Johannesburg Library staff Use of Technology During the COVID -19 : Challenges and Benefits

The COVID -19 pandemic caught everybody off-guard. The sudden mandatory closure of academic institutions and the resultant use of online learning impacted on the University as a whole. The Library had to respond to the change and continue to provide teaching and learning and, research support online. Library staff had to sharpen their technology skills, learn new ways of providing online support to the remote staff and students. The research seeks to understand the how staff used technology thing period, the challenges that they faced, and possible benefits that the sudden change brought to

The University of Johannesburg students' Use of Technology to Consume Library Services During the COVID -19: Challenges and Benefits

The COVID -19 outbreak led to the closure of academic institutions worldwide, leading to the introduction of online teaching and learning. Students had to consume the University's academic services electronically. Library services (access to online material and information literacy training) had to be accessed electronically due to the lockdown rules. Although the university provided students with electronic devices for online learning, there were various challenges that students faced during the online learning experience. These include access to library resources and services. Covid-19

CAD4COVID: Artificial Intelligence software for COVID-19 triage

Although SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic tests such as RT-PCR are the gold standard to confirm COVID-19, demand for PCR test-kits is extremely high and many countries face capacity limitations in the resources involved, thus timely access to rapid testing and diagnosis is critical. CT imaging has shown to be a highly sensitive method to detect COVID-19, however, availability of CT imaging is limited in developing countries. Alternatively, X-ray is also used among patients presenting COVID-19 symptoms, and although it is not as sensitive as CT, X-ray uses less radiation and is often less expensive

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