Professor
University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Prof Yahya Choonara is internationally recognised as an outstanding global Pharmaceutical Scientist working at the forefront of producing life-saving medicines. He is a South African DSI/NRF Research Chair and Director of the Wits Advanced Drug Delivery Platform (WADDP), a flagship research unit, and Africa’s only fully integrated platform focused on designing Nanomedicine, Advanced Drug Delivery Systems, and Functional Biomaterials. He is an inventor on 31 internationally granted patents.