Wits Advanced Drug Delivery Platform (WADDP)

Led by Professor Yahya Essop Choonara. The WADDP is a world-leading research entity established in 2007 with its Founding Director, the late Professor Viness Pillay (1970-2020). It vibrates with a team of exceptionally passionate, responsive, and talented Pharmaceutical Scientists focused on researching and producing 21st-century patient-centric pharmaceutical product innovations as neat solutions for the most challenging unmet therapeutic needs globally. The WADDP is a formally recognized research entity at Wits University within the Faculty of Health Sciences, and consistently produces high-quality research for over two decades. It provides the largest postgraduate and postdoctoral training and research platform of its kind in South Africa for candidates with a specific passion for undertaking cutting-edge research in the pharmaceutical sciences. The WADDP is also a recognized African Network for Drugs and Diagnostics Innovation (ANDI) Center of Excellence in Nanomedicine and Advanced Drug Delivery. ANDI CoEs are spread across Africa to conduct research, development, and innovation on drugs, diagnostics, vaccines, medical devices, and traditional medicines. CoEs are also focused on building research capacity on the African continent.