Wits Health Consortium
Astika Sewcharran is a seasoned professional in the field of clinical research and laboratory science, currently serving as Project Manager and Clinical Research Lead at Wits Health Consortium since January 2022. Previously, Astika worked as a Project Manager at the Wits Health Consortium's Centre of Excellence for Biomedical TB Research from March 2020 to January 2022 and held the position of Medical Laboratory Technician at the same center from September 2017 to March 2020. Additional experience includes roles as Lab Manager and Seed Analyst at Capstone Seeds and as a Student Educator at Howick Secondary School. Astika holds a Master of Science in Medical Clinical Sciences from the University of the Witwatersrand, as well as further studies in Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science. Astika earned a Bachelor's degree in Genetics from the University of Kwa-zulu Natal and has pursued various educational endeavors, including courses at Columbia University and the University of Pretoria.
Wits Health Consortium
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Wits Health Consortium (Pty) Limited (“WHC“) is a wholly owned Company of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (South Africa) under its Faculty of Health Sciences. WHC provides Faculty with a legal framework within which to operate the research and other activities necessary to support its academic objectives. In addition WHC offers a range of products and services to the Academics conducting these activities in order to assist with the management thereof. WHC was formed in March 1998 to harness and stimulate the commercial potential within Faculty, and in particular to capitalise on clinical research. The flexible manner in which WHC is structured encourages academics to operate their entities along entrepreneurial lines with strong investigator ownership. WHC balances reducing unnecessary bureaucratic control whilst still ensuring that activities are conducted in a formalised, controlled and well managed environment. WHC has also been the fertile breeding ground for many initiatives, the most notable being the formation of the Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre which was incubated within WHC and eventually established in its own entity. WHC is a not-for-profit organisation as all surpluses are reinvested in either WHC's or the University's operational and academic infrastructures.