Nicky Saacks

👩🏻‍🔬 MSc(Med) Cardiovascular Genetics 🧬 MSc Psychology student ❤️ Science educator 🍎 👩🏻‍🏫

[Nicky Saacks @Nsaacks13]

@NRF_News I am a MSc student at @HICRA_UCT, investigating the role of genetics in congenital heart disease in SA. Understanding the causes of children’s heart disease will improve the way we care for and treat our cardiac patients in Africa👩🏻‍🔬🧬#ResearcherinAfrica #WomenInSTEM @NRF_News

[Nicky Saacks @Nsaacks13]

heyyy 52366

[Nicky Saacks @Nsaacks13]

@calumscott @martinlukegill @WernerBekker_ Will be at your Cape Town show for the third time!! This time celebrating my sister’s 30th birthday! Please give her a shout out or let us meet you- we love you! 💙💙

[Nicky Saacks @Nsaacks13]

@calumscott Sunday will be the THIRD Cape Town concert of yours that my cousins and I will be attending!! You promised us in 2018 that you’d meet us and we are still waiting ❤️❤️ please make my sister’s @SamSaacks 30th bday extra special this weekend and make our dream come true

[Nicky Saacks @Nsaacks13]

We love you @calumscott 💓💓💓

[James Eales @EalesJames]

Cool video for latest publication from @Nsaacks13 @lieslzuhlke @KeavneyLab thanks @Circ_Gen

[@ChildrensHeartDiseaseResearch @ChildrensHeart1]

Watch how we used chromosomal microarray to identify copy number variants among congenital heart disease patients in Africa in this useful summary video by @jenniejlin 🫀 #CHD #CNV #Genetics #Cardiology @Nsaacks13 @JohnLawrenson @lieslzuhlke

[Nicky Saacks @Nsaacks13]

@leoranatesLJ @calumscott @lukeywilliams Love you

[Nicky Saacks @Nsaacks13]

@leoranatesLJ @calumscott @lukeywilliams 🙌🙌🙌🙌

[Nicky Saacks @Nsaacks13]

We love you @calumscott 💓💓💓

[Nicky Saacks @Nsaacks13]

Looking forward to presenting my Masters research which focussed on Investigating copy number variation in South African patients with congenital heart defects at the @uct_medicine annual research symposium shortly (12:45pm).
#UCTMRD2021
https://t.co/gou0xakLz1

[Nicky Saacks @Nsaacks13]

@lieslzuhlke you are an inspiration🌷

[@ChildrensHeartDiseaseResearch @ChildrensHeart1]

Congratulations to our Director, @lieslzuhlke, on her new position as Acting Deputy Dean for Research in the Faculty of Health Science!

[Nicky Saacks @Nsaacks13]

Covid Vaccinated 🦠💉😀 @kimi_brooks1

[Nicky Saacks @Nsaacks13]

A very interesting conference held by the European Society of Cardiology focusing on the promotion of genomic literacy amongst healthcare professionals. Thanks Cardio Genomics 2021 for the opportunity to share our research all the way from South Africa! @escardio #ESCGenomics

[Nicky Saacks @Nsaacks13]

@hannahh__d Same. Crazy dreams lol

[Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa]

Just took the vaccine! #WeChooseVaccination

[Nicky Saacks @Nsaacks13]

Lucky to have worked alongside, and learned from incredible #WomenInScience! 🧪👩🏻‍🔬👩🏾‍🔬👩🏿‍🔬🫀🧬 Thanks for being my science inspirations! @lieslzuhlke @kimi_brooks1 @_Miss_T__ @capetownjess @stephbaross @shona_borland @JadeTalbot_ @KathrynMcGurk #WomenInSTEM #WomenInScienceDay

[Nicky Saacks @Nsaacks13]

Celebrating Women in Science! 🔬🧪🌟👩🏻‍🔬👩🏿‍🔬👩🏾‍🔬🫀 #InternationalDayOfWomenInScience

[Tech Burrito @TechBurritoUno]

A full rotation of the Moon.

Credit: NASA/LRO
https://t.co/vqzanpLjWC

[Nicky Saacks @Nsaacks13]

@DrKKalawsky @AcademicChatter 🧬 👶🏽 🫀 🇿🇦

[NICD @nicd_sa]

Prof Karim shares Insights around what is currently known, and unknown, stating that it cannot yet be determined why this new lineage originated in the Nelson Mandela Bay District. #SARSCOV2MediaBriefing