Penny Moore

Penelope Moore is a virologist and DST/NRF South African Research Chair of Virus-Host Dynamics at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa and Senior Scientist at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases. Education and work Moore received her Master of Science degree in Microbiology from the University of Witwatersrand. In 2003, she completed her PhD in Virology at the University of London. She was one of the first scientists to bring the Omicron variant of COVID-19 to public attention. She remarked of the pace of the preliminary research that “We’re flying at warp speed. Her current work focuses on the HIV neutralizing antibodies and their interactions with HIV. These antibodies would form the basis for an HIV vaccine.