Collet Dandara is a Professor of Human Genetics, currently serving as both Director of the "SAMRC/UCT Platform for Pharmacogenomics Research and Translation Unit" and Deputy Dean for Postgraduate Education in the Faculty of Health Sciences, at the University of Cape Town. He is a Fellow of both the African Academy of Sciences (AAS) and the Academy of Sciences of South Africa (ASSAf). He is a member of the Institute of Infectious Diseases and molecular medicine (IDM) at the University of Cape Town. His work focusses on understanding genetic susceptibility and pharmacogenomics in African populations.