Organizing Committee Member
Anne Grobler
Director
DST/NWU Preclinical Drug Development Platform,North-West University
South Africa
Biography
Anne is a South African with a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutics (North-West University) and an M.Sc. in Medical Biochemistry (Stellenbosch University). She is a professor in Pharmaceutics at the North-West University, the director of the DST/NWU Preclinical Drug Development Platform, the founder of two for-profit companies and one incubator in drug delivery. At a national level, she was the coordinator of the South African Research Infrastructure Roadmap (2014- 2017) and a member of the Ministerial Panel for the review of the Science, Technology and Innovation Institutional Landscape (2016 -2017). Anne has delivered PhD and MSc students and is the author/co-author of 53 peer-reviewed publications. Her passion is innovation – she is the author of 9 patents; 5 of which as main inventor.
Research Area
Her research interests ranges from the design, construction and development of nanomedicinces and bioagricultural delivery systems, to the preclinical and clinical evaluation of such systems and the manufacturing processes involved.