Professor Ed Rybicki
Ed Rybicki is Director of the Biopharming Research Unit in the Department of Molecular & Cell Biology in the Faculty of Science of UCT, and Professor in Microbiology in the same Department. He is a full Member of both the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine and the SAMRC/UCT Gynaecological Cancer Research Centre in the Health Sciences Faculty of UCT. His research interests lie in molecular biotechnology, with a focus on producing proteins that can be used as reagents or candidate vaccines for human and animal diseases in a variety of production platforms, but concentrating on transient expression in plants. He has been an NRF A-rated scientist since 2011, is an author of more than 200 research articles, reviews or chapters, and he and the Unit have the largest patent portfolio at UCT, and the largest vaccine-related portfolio in Africa.