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As an entity of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), the National Research Foundation (NRF) promotes and supports research through funding, human resource development and the provision of National Research Facilities in all fields of natural and social sciences, humanities and technology. The NRF provides services to the research community especially at Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and Science Councils, with a view to promote high-level human capital development. The NRF aims to uphold excellence in all its investments in knowledge, people and infrastructure.

Schutte, Alta

Schutte, Alta

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Professor in Cardiovascular Physiology, working in the field for over 15 years within South Africa. With over 200 publications, over 70 postgraduate students trained and close involvement as editor or editorial board member on several international journals in the field, such as Journal of Hypertension and European Journal of Preventive Cardiology. Past President of the Southern African Hypertension Society and President Elect of the International Society of Hypertension. An updated list of publications can be viewed here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=schutte+ae
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Choonara, Yahya

Choonara, Yahya

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Professor Yahya Choonara is internationally recognised as an outstanding global pharmaceutical scientist working for 16 years at the forefront of the pharmaceutical sciences to produce advanced life-saving medicines that have an impact on global health (i.e. the best science for infectious, hereditary and lifestyle diseases). A Pharmacist by profession, in 2007 he co-founded the University of Witwatersrand’s Wits Advanced Drug Delivery Platform (WADDP) Research Unit, Africa’s largest Research Unit in its domain. Based in a Lower/Middle-Income Country (LMIC) he has contributed enormously to basic and translational pharmaceutical research focusing on intellectual property in the design of novel drug delivery systems, nanomedicines, functional biomaterials and regenerative medicine to produce 21st Century patient-centric medicines for disease prevention/treatment and has over 338 ISI-accredited publications to his name. Professor Choonara is a Personal Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences in the University of Witwatersrand’s Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology and the Director of the WADDP Research Unit, one of the flagship research units of Wits University.
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Hassan, Rashid Mekki

Hassan, Rashid Mekki

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Hassan holds BSC (1977) & MSC (1983) in Agric Econ from Univ of Khartoum, Sudan & MSC (1988) and PhD (1989) in Economics from Iowa State Univ. He is the ex-director of the Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa (CEEPA), at the University of Pretoria and previously held positions with CSIR in South Africa, and CIMMYT International. He has served as member of the UN Committee for Development Policy (CDP); Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) Science Committee; CGIAR Science Council (ISPC); Human Sciences Research Council of SA; CGIAR Climate Change Challenge Program (CCCP) Board; Academic Advisory Panel for The World Development Report on Climate Change; Board of Stockholm Resilience Centre; GEF Science and Technical Advisory Panel (STAP IV); Science Panel of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. His honours include, member, Academy of Sciences of South Africa (since 2005); University of Pretoria Chancellor Medal for Research (2011); Four times Univ. of Pretoria “Achiever: Academic Excellence” (2005 to 2014). He is founding chief editor of the African Journal of Agric. and Resource Economics and has published more than 140 refereed publications including 12 books.
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Coutsoudis, Anna

Coutsoudis, Anna

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Coutsoudis is a public health scientist and a Professor in the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, at the Nelson Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. She obtained her PhD in 1993 from the same university, and made important contributions on child nutrition, breastfeeding and prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS. Her awards include: the 2004 Nutrition Society of South Africa Award for her contribution to nutrition research in South Africa; the 2005 Amnesty International South Africa for protecting human rights in South Africa; the 2006 Convocation of University of KwaZulu-Natal for her outstanding contribution to medical science and society; and the 2009 Science for Society Gold Medal of the Academy of Sciences of South Africa, of which she is a Fellow. She is also a Fellow of of the University of KwaZulu-Natal. In 2000, she established the first community-based breastmilk bank in South Africa to provide donor breastmilk to AIDS orphans, and was one of the founding members of the Human Milk Banking Association of South Africa, which she chairs. She is involved in putting in place low-cost technology for human milk banks.
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