WADDP Research Team Innovating new Drug (or bioactive) Delivery Systems interfaced with Nanomedicine, Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, and supported by Smart Biomaterials to design Patient-Centric therapies.
WADDP Research Team Innovating new Drug (or bioactive) Delivery Systems interfaced with Nanomedicine, Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, and supported by Smart Biomaterials to design Patient-Centric therapies.
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Research Team

Professor Yahya E. Choonara (BPharm; MPharm; PhD; FAAS; MASSAf; FTWAS; MPS)
  • Director and Principal Researcher
  • Head: Pharmaceutical Sciences and Contract Research
  • South African DSI/NRF Research Chair: Prototyping 21st-Century Therapeutics in Advanced Drug Delivery, Nanomedicine, Biomaterials and Regenerative Medicine
  • E-mail: yahya.choonara@wits.ac.za
Professor Lisa C. du Toit (BPharm; MPharm; PhD; MASSAf; FAAS)
Professor Pradeep Kumar (BPharm; MPharm; PhD; MASSAf)
Associate Professor Thashree Marimuthu (BSc. Chem; MSc; PhD)
Dr Gillian Mahumane (BPharm; MPharm; PhD)
Dr Mershen Govender (BPharm; MPharm; PhD)
Dr Poornima Ramburrn (BPharm; MPharm; PhD)
Dr Hillary Mndlovu (BSc; MSc; PhD)
Postdoctoral Fellows
Dr. D. Essa

Glioblastoma Multiforme, 3D-Cell Culture Models

Dr. K. Mnqiwu

CNS Infectious Diseases, Biomimetic Nanoparticles

Dr L. Ngema

Nanomedicine, Tuberculosis, Immunotherapy, Lung Cancer

Dr S. Adeyemi

Intracellular Drug Transport, Precision Nanoparticles

Dr K. Somandi

Extracellular Vesicles, Nanosomes, Nanomedicine

Dr N. Okafor

Stimuli-Responsive Nanoparticles

Dr N. Singh

Secrotome Therapeutics, 3D-Bioprinting

Dr N. Ngqinayo

Peptide and Protein Therapeutics

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