From Spider-Man to Mandela, the many influences in Professor Salim Abdool Karim’s remarkable career

For Professor Salim Abdool Karim, excellence should be the only standard. In science, he says he is inspired by imaginative thinking such as that of American comic publisher Stan Lee, co-creator of Spider-Man. Spotlight sat down with him in his office in a glass-encased building on the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s medical campus.