{"id":2674,"date":"2025-11-24T15:59:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T15:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.starsfellows.africa\/?p=2674"},"modified":"2025-11-24T15:59:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T15:59:44","slug":"puseletso-lesofe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starsfellows.africa\/ar\/2025\/11\/24\/puseletso-lesofe\/","title":{"rendered":"Puseletso Lesofe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"625\" class=\"wp-image-2669\" style=\"width: 500px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.starsfellows.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Puseletso-Lesofe.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.starsfellows.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Puseletso-Lesofe.png 1890w, https:\/\/www.starsfellows.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Puseletso-Lesofe-240x300.png 240w, https:\/\/www.starsfellows.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Puseletso-Lesofe-819x1024.png 819w, https:\/\/www.starsfellows.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Puseletso-Lesofe-768x960.png 768w, https:\/\/www.starsfellows.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Puseletso-Lesofe-1229x1536.png 1229w, https:\/\/www.starsfellows.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Puseletso-Lesofe-1638x2048.png 1638w, https:\/\/www.starsfellows.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Puseletso-Lesofe-10x12.png 10w, https:\/\/www.starsfellows.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Puseletso-Lesofe-600x750.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Puseletso Manyaka-Lesofe is an HPCSA-registered Medical Biological Scientist specialising in microbiology and molecular diagnostics. With over nine years of experience in pathology and clinical research, she is also the Co-founder of the African Institute of Medical Scientists, advancing equity in medical science and education across Africa. She has received multiple honours, including the Mail &amp; Guardian Power of Women in STEMI (2024), Forbes Africa 30 Under 50, and the Women in Philanthropy Young Leaders Fellowship (2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Connect on LinkedIn: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/puseletso-manyaka-26b152106\/\">Puseletso Lesofe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Puseletso Manyaka-Lesofe is an HPCSA-registered Medical Biological Scientist specialising in microbiology and molecular diagnostics. With over nine years of experience in pathology and clinical research, she is also the Co-founder of the African Institute of Medical Scientists, advancing equity in medical science and education across Africa. She has received multiple honours, including the Mail &amp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2669,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mbafellows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starsfellows.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starsfellows.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starsfellows.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starsfellows.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starsfellows.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.starsfellows.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2675,"href":"https:\/\/www.starsfellows.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674\/revisions\/2675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starsfellows.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starsfellows.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starsfellows.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starsfellows.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}