Professor Edward Peter Rybicki taught Molecular & General Virology at University level from 1981 to 2010, as well as postgraduate courses in centrifugation, PCR, ELISA, western blotting and bioinformatics. He was then seconded to the Research Office and to ICT Services (till the end of 2016) to help establish a Research Portal and investigate new bibliometric packages and help establish techniques for evaluating University of Cape Town and individual researcher metrics. He was on sabbatical in 2017, and returned to undergraduate teaching in 2018.
Prof Rybicki direct a large research group specialising in production of vaccine- and diagnostic-relevant proteins and high-value protein reagents via various expression systems, but mainly in plants. He has an interest in the diversity of viruses generally, and of avian circoviruses in particular.
They have - as of 2013 - a Biopharming Research Unit recognised by the University of Cape Town Research Committee, with him as Director. They are also associated with a company founded in 2018 - Cape Bio Pharms - that is licensing products from them, as well as developing their own.
