Vision and Mission

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Vision

Being the only research platform in its domain in South Africa, our vision is to continue leading the world in creating new patient-centric pharmaceutical treatment solutions for infectious, hereditary and lifestyle diseases.

Mission

• To achieve targeted delivery of drugs (or other bioactives) as either standalone prototypes or interfaced with Nanomedicine, Tissue Engineering, Regenerative Medicine and Functional Biomaterials.
• To undertake translational pharmaceutical research and generate intellectual property as a solution shop.
• To research hard to solve challenges in medicine through the discovery, design and development of first-in-the-world pharmaceutical therapies.
• To make a clinically meaningful impact through our research passion.
• To train the next generation of pharmaceutical scientists who will contribute to the innovative pharmaceutical workforce on the African continent and globally.