Tahir Pillay

Tahir Pillay holds several appointments as:

• Chief specialist, professor and head of the Department of Chemical Pathology, University of Pretoria and National Health Laboratory service
• Honorary professor of Chemical Pathology, University of Cape Town
• Clinical director of International Activities, Royal College of Pathologists, London and Deputy Editor, Annals of Clinical Biochemistry.

His past appointments includes:

• Editor-in-Chief , Journal of Clinical Pathology
• Past chair of Communications and Publication Division(CPD) of the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory medicine (IFCC)

He received MBChB cum laude (University of Natal), PhD in biochemistry from the University of Cambridge and a postgraduate specialist training at Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College, London and postdoctoral training at the University of California San Diego.

Tahir is also a fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists (FRCPath).

His prior awards include the Juvenile Diabetes International Fellowship, the American Foundation of Clinical Research outstanding postdoctoral award, the Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Fellowship, Professors Prize from the Association for Clinical Biochemistry, UK and the Senior Researcher award from the South African Association for Clinical Biochemistry.

Tahir research spans molecular cell biology of insulin signalling, the cell biology of insulin resistance, molecular modelling of ligand-receptor complexes and development of new diagnostic probes for point-of-care testing using recombinant DNA technology.