For information on South Africa's response to COVID-19 please visit the COVID-19 Corona Virus South African Resource Portal.
Research & innovation overview
Read UCT's annual publication Research & Innovation Highlights 2019-20, which spotlights noteworthy research achievements and projects over the past year, including a special section on COVID-related research.
World subject rankings:
Infectious Diseases: =9th
Development Studies: 10th
Research strengths
- Astronomy, cosmology and gravity
- Biodiversity
- Catalysis: accelerating chemical change
- Climate and development
- Data-intensive research
- Democracy, public policy and citizenship in Africa
- Drug discovery
- Future water
- High-energy physics
- Human-wildlife conflict
- Infectious diseases and molecular medicine
- Marine research
- Mineral beneficiation
- Neurosciences
- Poverty and inequality
- Preserving our African heritage
- Safety and violence
- Schools
- Urban Africa
