Yahya Choonara

Prof 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) (https://www.wits.ac.za/waddp), a flagship research unit, and Africa's only fully integrated platform in its domain focused on designing Nanomedicine, Advanced Drug Delivery Systems, Functional Biomaterials and Regenerative Medicines. He has published >370 papers in the field (H-index = 53), mentored/trained >110 graduates and is an inventor on 28 internationally granted patents in the pharmaceutical sciences.