Prof. Dr. Monde Ntwasa is a Professor of Life and Consumer Sciences at the University of South Africa. He completed matric at St Johns College in Mthatha and graduated with a B.Sc. Microbiology and B.Sc. (Clinical Science and Immunology) at the University of Cape Town. Later, he graduated with an MPhil and Ph.D. at Cambridge University (United Kingdom). He returned to the University of Cape Town as a Research Fellow and later accepted a position as a Lecturer in Biochemistry at the University of the Witwatersrand. After 17 years at Wits, where he was an associate professor in Biochemistry, he accepted a position at the University of South Africa as a Full Professor in Biotechnology. He is currently conducting research in cancer and is developing small molecule drugs for the treatment of cancer. His research interests include Molecular Biology, Cancer Biology, Chromatography, Sequencing, Genomics, Mass Spectrometry, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Gene Expression, Cloning, and Proteins.
Short Biography
Prof. Dr. Monde Ntwasa is a Professor of Life and Consumer Sciences at the University of South Africa. He completed matric at St Johns College in Mthatha and graduated with a B.Sc. Microbiology and B.Sc. (Clinical Science and Immunology) at the University of Cape Town. Later, he graduated with an MPhil and Ph.D. at Cambridge University (United Kingdom). He returned to the University of Cape Town as a Research Fellow and later accepted a position as a Lecturer in Biochemistry at the University of the Witwatersrand. After 17 years at Wits, where he was an associate professor in Biochemistry, he accepted a position at the University of South Africa as a Full Professor in Biotechnology. He is currently conducting research in cancer and is developing small molecule drugs for the treatment of cancer. His research interests include Molecular Biology, Cancer Biology, Chromatography, Sequencing, Genomics, Mass Spectrometry, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Gene Expression, Cloning, and Proteins.
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