Yahya Choonara
Professor, Chair and Head of the Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa (SA)
Biography
Professor Yahya Choonara is internationally recognised as an outstanding global Pharmaceutical Scientist working at the forefront of the pharmaceutical sciences to produce life-saving medicines that have an impact on global health. As a Pharmacist and a South African National Research Foundation (NRF) Chair he leads the Wits Advanced Drug Delivery Platform (WADDP), Africa’s only fully integrated research unit in its domain focused on designing Nanomedicine, Advanced Drug Delivery Systems, Biomaterials and Regenerative Medicines. He has a track record of >370 publications and 28 granted international patents in the field and has trained >110 postgraduate students and postdoctoral fellows.
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