About Kelly Chibale
Academic Career
| 2020 - date | Neville Isdell Chair in African-centric Drug Discovery & Development |
| 2010 – date | Founder and Director, UCT Drug Discovery and Development Centre (H3D). |
| 2009 – date | Director, South African Medical Research Council Drug Discovery and Development Research Unit. |
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2008 – date |
Tier 1 South African National Research Chair in Drug Discovery under the South African Research Chairs Initiative. |
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2008 |
Visiting Professor, Pfizer Global Research & Development (Sandwich, UK), Sep-Dec 2008. |
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2008 |
US Fulbright Senior Research Scholar, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, USA (with Doron Greenbaum), Jan-June 2008. |
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2007 – date |
Full Professor (ad hominem promotion), Department of Chemistry, UCT. |
| 2006 – date | Full Member, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine (IIDMM), UCT. |
| 2004 – 2006 | Associate Professor (ad hominem promotion), Department of Chemistry, UCT. |
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2002 |
Sandler Sabbatical Fellow, University of California San Francisco, USA (with Jim McKerrow) |
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2002 |
Invited Professor, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, France (with Jacques Brocard). |
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2001 – 2003 |
Senior Lecturer (ad hominem promotion), Department of Chemistry, UCT. |
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1999 – 2000 |
Wellcome Trust Visiting Fellow, University of Dundee, UK (with Alan Fairlamb). |
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1998 |
Wellcome Trust Visiting Fellow, University of Cambridge, UK (with Stuart Warren). |
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1997 – 2000 |
Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, UCT. |
| 1996 – 1997 | Contract Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, University of Cape Town (UCT). |
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1994 – 1996 |
Wellcome Trust (UK) International Prize Travelling Research Fellow, Department of Chemistry and the Skaggs Institute of Chemical Biology, Scripps Research Institute, United States of America (USA). Research with K. C. Nicolaou. |
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1994 |
Sir William Ramsay British Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Chemistry, University of Liverpool, UK. Research with Nick Greeves. |
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1992 |
Cambridge-Livingstone Trust Scholar and PhD Student, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK). Research with Stuart Warren. |
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1987 – 1989 |
Technical Officer, Assistant Shift Manager, Development Chemist, Kafironda Explosives Limited, Mufulira, Zambia. |
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1983 – 1987 |
B.Sc. Ed. (chemistry with distinction), University of Zambia. |
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1978 – 1982 |
Secondary (High) School education at Mungwi Secondary School, Mungwi, Northern Province, Zambia. |
| 1971 – 1977 | Primary School education at Mitanto (Kitwe), Makoma (Luanshya and Muwele (Chief Chiundaponde, Mpika) Primary Schools, Zambia. |