1. Viness Pillay, a Fulbright Scholar and Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences, is a Personal Full Professor of Pharmaceutics and a South African National Research Foundation Tier 1 Research Chair in Pharmaceutical Biomaterials and Polymer-Engineered Drug Delivery Technologies at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He is the Director of the Wits Advanced Drug Delivery Platform (WADDP), which encompasses the research, development and eventual commercialization of innovative...
2. Pradeep Kumar is a lecturer of pharmaceutics and a doctoral research candidate under the mentorship of Viness Pillay at the University of the Witwatersrand. His research is focused on computational simulations and noninvasive ultrasound imaging to optimize the performance of polymer-engineered neural devices in vivo for spinal cord injury interventions. He has more than 80 peer-reviewed publications to his credit that include book chapters, research papers and reviews.
3. Yahya E Choonara is Associate Professor of Pharmaceutics in the Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology at WADDP. He prototypes commercializable drug delivery technologies for the treatment of various communicable, noncommunicable, hereditary and lifestyle diseases. He has published over 100 articles in ISI-accredited journals, presented over 230 conference papers and is a co-inventor of over 30 patents in drug delivery technology.