Professor Lynn Morris

Professor Lynn Morris’s research centres around HIV/AIDS, in particular the development of a vaccine and HIV prevention. She obtained her BSc and Honours degrees in Zoology and Microbiology from the University of the Witwatersrand and completed her PhD in Virology at Oxford where she also worked as a Departmental Demonstrator. She completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Australia; was a Visiting Scientist at the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Centre in New York; and Interim Executive Director and Principal Medical Scientist for the National Institute for Communicable Diseases. She is the Founding Director of the Antibody Immunity Research Unit at the NICD and currently the Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Research and Innovation at WITS. She has published more than 270 papers in journals including Nature Communications and Lancet HIV. She has served as a board member of the Medical Research Council as well as on various working groups during the COVID-19 pandemic including the WHO TAH-EUA. Her work has garnered numerous awards including the Vice-Chancellors Research Award and the MRC Gold Medal Award among others.