Raksha Bhoora is a Senior lecturer at the Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases, within the Vectors and Vector-borne diseases research programme. After obtaining her PhD in Veterinary Parasitology at the University of Pretoria in 2010, she completed a two-year post-doc at CSIR Molecular Biomaterials. In 2012 she was appointed as a Researcher within the Transboundary Animal Disease Programme (TADP) at ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Research (ARC-OVR). During that time, she worked on a Vaccine development initiative project on Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD). In 2015 she was appointed as a Senior Researcher at the Epidemiology, Parasites and Vectors (EPV) Programme (ARC-OVR), where she was involved in the development of improved molecular assays for economically relevant diseases of veterinary importance. Although she has worked on other systems (Trypanosomiasis (Nagana and Dourine); Anaplasmosis; Babesiosis and Theileriosis), her current model and the research system that she continues to develop is equine piroplasmosis (Theileria equi and Babesia caballi).