Professor Kelly Chibale, the founder and director of the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Holistic Drug Discovery and Development (H3D) Centre, has been conferred an honorary fellowship by Queens’ College, University of Cambridge, in recognition of his outstanding leadership, research and innovation in the field of drug discovery.

Professor Chibale has an impressive list of accolades behind his name, including having received the Royal Society Africa Prize, serving as the first editor-in-chief (EIC) from Africa of an American Chemical Society (ACS) journal when he was appointed EIC of ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters and being named one of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders by Fortune magazine.

In December 2024, he reached yet another milestone as he was conferred an honorary fellowship by Queens’ College, University of Cambridge, where he completed his PhD in synthetic organic chemistry in 1992.

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