Employment and Appointments:
1983-1987 B.Sc. Ed. (Chemistry with distinction), University of Zambia
1987-1989 Technical Officer, Assistant Shift Manager, Development Chemist, Kafironda Explosives Limited, Zambia.
1989-1992 Cambridge-Livingstone Trust Scholar and PhD Student, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK). Research with Stuart Warren.
1992-1994 Sir William Ramsay British Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Chemistry, University of Liverpool, UK. Research with Nick Greeves.
1994-1996 Wellcome Trust (UK) International Prize Travelling Research Fellow, Department of Chemistry and the Skaggs Institute of Chemical Biology, Scripps Research Institute, United States of America (USA). Research with K. C. Nicolaou.
1996-1997 Contract Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, University of Cape Town (UCT).
1997-2000 Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, UCT.
1998 Wellcome Trust Visiting Fellow, University of Cambridge, UK (with Stuart Warren).
1999-2000 Wellcome Trust Visiting Fellow, University of Dundee, UK (with Alan Fairlamb).
2001-2003 Senior Lecturer (ad hominem promotion), Department of Chemistry, UCT.
2002 Sandler Sabbatical Fellow, University of California San Francisco, USA (with Jim McKerrow).
2002 Invited Professor, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, France (with Jacques Brocard).
2004-2006 Associate Professor (ad hominem promotion), Department of Chemistry, UCT.
2006-date Full Member, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine (IDM), UCT.
2007-date Full Professor (ad hominem promotion), Department of Chemistry, UCT.
2008 US Fulbright Senior Research Scholar, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, USA (with Doron Greenbaum), Jan-June 2008
2008 Visiting Professor, Pfizer Global R & D, (Sandwich, Kent, UK), Sep-Dec 2008.
2008-2022 Tier 1 South Africa Research Chair in Drug Discovery under the South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARChI)
2009- Founding Director, South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) Drug Discovery and Development Research Unit
2010- Founder and Director, UCT Holistic Drug Discovery and Development (H3D) Centre
2019- Neville Isdell Chair in African-centric Drug Discovery & Development
2019- Founder and Director/CEO/Chairman, H3D Foundation
2021- Founder and Director/Executive Chairman, AfroTherapeutics
Research interests in drug discovery and the development of tools and models to contribute to improving treatment outcomes in people of African descent.