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Ms Caroline Pule with the poster she presented at the 2015 TB Congress in London

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Ms Caroline Pule, PhD Student in Molecular Biology, is a talented young women who is not only a succesful student, she is also actively giving back to the community and caring for the environment.

 

Pule won best poster presentation as well as the feedback prize at the 2015 TB Summit for her poster presentation entitled “The role of efflux pump inhibitors on first and second line anti-TB drugs in rifampicin mono resistant clinical isotates of mycobacteirum tuberculosis”. She attended the summit, organised by Euroscicon in London in March this year, on a Whitehead Scientific travelling award.  These bursaries are offered to researchers in life sciences to attend scientific conferences, meetings or laboratories.  

 

Pule describes herself as a young giver who is passionate about philantrophy. She dreams of having a purposeful live givingback to her country. She realised early in her life that education is the key to success. “This made me realise that I can contribute to the community through improving literacy and science education, hence I founded the Caroline Pule Science and Literacy Foundation, to help those who didn’t get the same opportunities as me,” she says. Through her foundation, Pule aims to establish science clubs in disadvantaged communities and distribute scientific literature to these communities.

 

Pule occupies leadership positions in multiple organisations which focus on amongst others , tuberculosis eradication, women in science, leadership and community development.

 

She is a committee member of the Association of South African Women in Science and Engineering (SAWISE), the Western Cape Branch of the South African Associates Women Graduates (SAAWG), and has currently been appointed as an Ambassador of the South African National Tuberculosis Association (SANTA).

 

As SANTA Ambassador, Pule has rendered multiple oral presentations at various meetings highlihting the importance of working together as TB research funders, scientists, phamaceuticals, clinicians, health care workers and volunteer community health workers to fight and eradicate TB in order to build a healthy nation.

 

Pule is also an environmentalist and was a semi-finalist in the Miss Earth SA competition.  This programme aims to empower young South African women with the knowledge and platform to enhance sustainability in the country.

 

Article by: Mandi Barnard | Photo: Provided

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