Tulio de Oliveira

Professor of medical research leading global genomics surveillance. Director CERI and KRISP at UKZN, SA. Pro-VC at Stellenbosch University. Tweets my own.

[Marion Koopmans, publications: https://pure.eur.nl @MarionKoopmans]

great team, great work, nice to see this award

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@MarionKoopmans Thanks Marion!

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Arrived in Helsinki for a week of meetings, collaborative events and SLUSH! We have a whole team from SWEAT Africa @StellenboschUni, which is the most innovative University in South Africa, with the highest number of startups and companies! Looking forward to the week ahead. #SWEATAfrica #Startups #SouthAfrica #SLUSH

[Tulio de Oliveira @Tuliodna]

We are so honored to have received the inaugural Nature AI Research award. Our team are becoming known as one of the top AI Research teams in the world in Life Sciences. The global award was launched earlier this year by the BCG X AI Science Institute, part of @BCG, in partnership with @Nature Awards, part of Springer Nature. Announced at a ceremony in London, the awards recognize researchers applying AI and machine learning to scientific challenges with the potential for real-world impact. READ MORE: https://t.co/NeyCrsErKP AND https://t.co/JBZPyWKORk

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November is for men mental health. Sometimes, it is hard to talk, sometimes some take the last resource, which is suicide, sorry to be negative, but it is real, we are not only growing our mustaches but raising money for the regulators, where every fund goes to Boys Night Projects, a registered non-profit in Somerset West (reg. 2023/998102/08). It's ring-fenced for men who need psychologist sessions, psychiatrist visits or admission to a mental health clinic, and have no medical aid or have run out of their Prescribed Minimum Benefits (PMBs). https://t.co/Dnhq4LJxbP

#MentalHealth #Men #November

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Going to Hel to @SlushHQ from the summer in one of the most beautiful areas in the world #capetown to take @SweatAfrica Africa to one of the best startup and investors conferences in the world. It will be an adventure, keep tuned https://t.co/jbJTttKui8 #SWEATAfrica #SLUSH

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@PaswanDeep12610 @grok I must say that i like his hair, hope not AI generated

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I really hope that today is the last nail in the coffin or using a flag and nationalist ideal to get voters to support causes. Like it happened in Brazil recently a political party should own a flag or nationalism but be judged by the proposals and policies.

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Halloween

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Halloween

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It is always a magic moment when I attend a Nobel Symposium. It is my 6th one, both in Sweden and in South Africa and it is amazing that the Nobel Foundation chose South Africa to host half of the Nobel Symposiums! Today, i qm proud to attend the Nobel Symposium of Physics in Stellenbosch at Stellenbosch Business Institute Stellenbosch University

[Centre for Epidemic Response & Innovation (CERI) @ceri_news]

Can Africa manufacture its own enzymes at scale? Dominic Nicholas, CEO of Immobazyme, shared with African STARS Fellows how a South African biotech built a product now supplied on four continents.

#AfricanSTARS #CERISeminars

[Tulio de Oliveira @Tuliodna]

Starting soon our session in the main program at the Pwani Innovation Week in Mombasa! Please come by and let's talk on how to connect some of the most innovative ecosystem in Africa, South Africa and Kenya working together to advance innovation, entrepreneurship and support founders in Africa

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Great to see the news at the ReefoDivers website about the SWEAT Africa Event in Kenya connecting blue economy (i.e. ocean economy) innovators and startups #SWEATAfrica #Kenya - https://t.co/1gSSyPi3vz

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This week our teams are in two beautiful locations in the East Coast of Africa! At Mombasa in Kenya, where we join the 7th edition of @pwaniinnovation by @swahilipothub to strengthen the innovation ecosystem and and at Ponta do Ouro in Mozambique, where we participate in a @wellcometrust Change and Mental Health program, WEMA. So expect lots of coverage of high-level science and innovation from some of the most beautiful coasts in the world. #SWEATAfrica #Africa #Science #Climate #MentalHealth #Innovation

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Powerful words on one of the most important but controversial topic in South Africa: the National Health Insurance (NHI) by Dr Nicholas Crisp at Africa In the World

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How Africa Works? Joe Studwell Offers A Few Provocations, with Feyi Fawehinmi - Today, in person at Stellenbosch University but also online at Youtube 🔗https://t.co/2yXCDp2Pz2

To RSVP for the in person - https://t.co/OV2Xgne8Ll

Africa In the World CERI - Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation

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So one of my favorite events in the world started last night at Spier in Stellenbosch, the Africa In the World - what a great way to start with a great performance of Neo Muyanga who I am so fortunate to know well and both be a fellow of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. It is amazing music can do the the soul and yesterday was special as it challenged the Xenophobia in South Africa!

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Do not miss if you are in Stellenbosch or Cape Town as this will be fantastic! Tomorrow, I am very honored to host as Pro-VC of Stellenbosch University, Joe Studwells provocative and ultimately optimistic book discussion and case for the African continents economic future.

This will be a special session of the Africa In the World that is open to the public in the stunning Adam Small Theater from 4:30pm to 6pm!

https://t.co/OV2Xgne8Ll

Whether or not you agree with his conclusions, youll almost certainly leave thinking differently. 

Founded and hosted by Dele Olojede, Africa in the World brings together leading thinkers and innovators from across Africa and the world to inspire fresh thinking and bolder action on the continents challenges and opportunities. 

Joe Studwell has spent decades exploring one of the defining questions of our time: why do some countries prosper while others struggle? After examining the policies behind East Asias extraordinary economic transformation in How Asia Works, he turned his attention to Africa. A decade of research, travel and reporting followed, culminating in How Africa Works: Success and Failure on the Worlds Last Developmental Frontier. Attendance is by invitation only, and seating is limited, so registration is required. Attached is the invitation in PDF and as a picture below.

THURSDAY 22 OCTOBER 2026Adam Small Theatre, 15 Victoria St, StellenboschArrival 4:30 pm I Conversation 5:00-6:30

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Always happy to see a great African collaborator at a top international conference: here with Dr Eric Agboli from Ghana, who is doing a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Germany. We work together tracking West Nile viruses in Africa and their global expansion #WHA2026