Dr. Ntethelelo Sibiya is a Lecturer at the Rhodes University. He teaches Pharmacy Anatomy and Physiology, Pathophysiology, and Pathology. He completed his PhD in Medical Sciences from the University of KwaZulu-Natal in 2016 and started working as a Postdoctoral Fellow there. In 2018, he moved to Rhodes University and received the 2022 Vice-Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award. His research focus is diabetes: 1. Understanding disease development at the molecular and cellular level, 2. Mitochondrial drug-induced toxicity and glucose impairments, 3. Antihyperglycaemic drug development (synthetic and natural molecules and peptides) and pharmacological screening, 4. Repurposing existing drugs for diabetes management.