Prof. Sarel F. Malan is a professor and Director of the School of Pharmacy, University of the Western Cape. He is an honorary life member of the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences and a Fellow and past President of the Pharmaceutical Society of South Africa and a National Research Foundation (NRF) B3-rated scientist. He has served in various capacities on the executive committees of the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences and the Pharmaceutical Society of SA. He is a member of expert committees of the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) and the WHO and advisory panels of the South African National Research Foundation (NRF), the Standards Generating Body for Pharmacy, and the South African Pharmacy Council. He is an Associate Editor of Frontiers in Drug Discovery: Neurological Drugs and an editorial board member of Mini-Reviews in Medicinal Chemistry. He is a reviewer/evaluator for the National Research Foundation (Rating, funding, and Innovation fund), MRC South Africa, and various scientific journals (the South African Journal of Science, Organic Letters, Life Sciences, Letters in Organic Chemistry, Metabolic Brain Disease, Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, the European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, and the European Journal of Pharmacology, amongst others).