Anne Grobler is a South African citizen with a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutics (North-West University, South Africa), an M.Sc. in Medical Biochemistry (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) and an Honours in Biochemistry (PU for CHE, South Africa).

Her research interests are the design, construction and optimization of delivery and transporter technologies for active pharmaceutical in conjunction with the preclinical and clinical evaluation of such technologies. This interest includes the delivery and transport of bio-agricultural molecules and compounds.

David Dago N’Da, BSc, BSc (Hons), MSc (University of Abidjan, Ivory Coast), MSc, PhD (University of the Witwatersrand) is doctor of Medicinal Chemistry in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the NWU.  He is a medicinal chemist who specialises in the chemistry of antimalarial drugs, whilst his research focuses on the rational design and synthesis of new compounds with potential antimalarial activity.  He has supervised a large number of post-graduate students and has several PhD and MSc students currently under his supervision.  He is the author/co-author

Sias Hamman obtained the BPharm, MSc (Pharmaceutics) and PhD (Pharmaceutics) degrees from North-West University and is currently a Professor in Pharmaceutics at the School of Pharmacy at North-West University, South Africa. His research interests include nose-to-brain drug delivery, in vitro and ex vivo models to assess intranasal drug delivery, functional excipients, beneficial herb-drug interactions and biopharmaceutical aspects of natural compounds.

Pieter started his career as a clinical psychologist in the public sector in 2003, initially working in the military, before moving into the private sector.