Partners
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, also known as the Gates Foundation, is a private foundation founded by Bill and Melinda Gates. The primary aims of the foundation are, globally, to enhance healthcare and reduce extreme poverty, and in America, to expand educational opportunities and access to information technology. Since its launch in 2000, the foundation has endowed and supported a broad range of high impact social, health, and education developments.
Kevin Prudence
Kevin Prudence, an experienced human nutrition business professional, advises on nutritional ingredient innovation, product development, new business development, marketing and project management.
Fundisa African Academy of Medicines Development
Fundisa African Academy of Medicines Development is a non-profit organisation providing and promoting teaching and training of medicines development in South Africa and other African countries. A main objective is to bring together all relevant stakeholders, including academia, industry, regulatory authorities
and other institutions.
Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University
The Infectious Diseases Institute based at the College of Health Sciences, Makerere University in Uganda is set up to strengthen health systems in Africa, with a strong emphasis on infectious diseases, through research
and capacity development.
The AAS is a non-aligned, non-political, not-for-profit pan African organisation whose vision is to see transformed lives on the African continent through science.
Translational Pharmacokinetics Research Group,
Obafemi Awolowo University
The Translational Pharmacokinetics Research Group (TPRG) is based at Obafemi Awolowo University, a comprehensive public university in the ancient city of Ile-Ife in south-western Nigeria. Its primary focus is accelerating the generation of PK data in special populations and challenging therapeutic scenarios and facilitate their translation into useful policy recommendations. This is acheived through relevant research and capacity development programmes led by
qualified faculty members.
TASK is a clinical research organisation based in Cape Town, South Africa with a focus on performing clinical trials. TASK provides assistance to efficiently conduct studies for diagnosis, treatment or prevention of tuberculosis, as well as other prevalent diseases such as asthma, osteoarthritis and vaccine studies, where new and improved treatments are urgently needed.
Providing strategic pharmacology and pharmacometric consulting services, PK/PD model development with NONMEM, clinical trial simulations, exposure-response evaluations, dose justification strategies and related data
management services.
H3D is Africa’s first integrated drug discovery and development centre. The Centre was founded at the University of Cape Town in April 2010 and pioneers world-class drug discovery in Africa.