Lesetja Legoabe, BPharm, MSc, PhD (NWU) is full professor and a director at the Centre of Excellence for Pharmaceutical Sciences (Pharmacen). His research interest is the design, synthesis, and development of small molecules with potential therapeutic values. Over the years he trained PhD and MSc students in pharmaceutical chemistry and endeavoured to push back the frontier of knowledge and conducted research aimed at contributing towards finding treatments for inter alia, infectious diseases including, TB, infections caused by ESKAPE pathogens and parasitic infections including malaria, trypanosomiasis and leishmaniasis.