From left is Professor Ncoza Dlova with some of her groundbreaking research collaborators: Professor Amy McMichael, Professor Eli Sprecher and Dr Ofer Sarig.Ground-breaking Research Gets to the Root of Permanent Hair Loss Amongst African Women
Professor Ncoza Dlova, the Dean of UKZN’s School of Clinical Medicine and internationally renowned Dermatologist, through her global collaborative work with a number of scientists; have identified a new gene that is a major cause of permanent hair loss amongst women of African descent. They discovered the root cause of Central Centrifugal Cicatricial Alopecia (CCCA), one of the most common causes of primary scarring alopecia amongst African women.
