Prof Janet Mans is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medical Virology and co-leads the Enteric Virus and Environmental Virology Research Group. She has a Master’s degree in Biochemistry from the University of Pretoria. She joined the Immunology Laboratory of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in the USA as a pre-doctoral fellow in 2004 where she studied the structure and function of mouse cytomegalovirus MHC-I homologs and obtained her PhD in Virology from the University of the Witwatersrand in 2008. She established norovirus research at the University of Pretoria and her research combines norovirus surveillance in the clinical setting and the environment to understand the molecular epidemiology and diversity of these viruses in South Africa. She is also involved in environmental surveillance for other enteric viruses and SARS-CoV-2.