Rate My Professor Michelle Skelton

Michelle Skelton completed her undergraduate training at the University of the Western Cape. After obtaining a Master’s degree with research on oesophageal cancer and the role of tumour suppressor genes, she worked as a Research Officer at the University of the Witwatersrand in the Department of Molecular Hepatology. Her doctoral studies at the University of the Witwatersrand investigated the role of Hepatitis B Virus genome variation in liver cancer. She subsequently undertook short research projects on HIV diversity at the University of Cape Town and completed a post-doctoral research fellowship in Professor Dandara’s Pharmacogenomics Group in the Division of Human Genetics at the University of Cape Town, focusing on virus restriction genes and ethnic variations that may influence differences in HIV infection prevalence. Michelle Skelton currently serves as Coordinating Centre Program Manager in the Computational Biology Division of the Department of Integrative Biomedical Sciences at the University of Cape Town, where she manages initiatives in genomics and data science, including contributions to the H3Africa Consortium and DS-I Africa projects aimed at advancing health research capacity across the continent.