Dickson Mambwe

Dickson was born in Mpika, Zambia in 1990 and received his bachelor's degree in chemistry from the University of Zambia in 2014. Thereafter, Dickson worked in two separate senior chemist roles in analytical services (pharmaceutical and precision farming). In 2017, he joined Professor Kelly Chibale's research group as a master's student at the University of Cape Town. Dickson upgraded to Ph.D. the following year (2018) working on a drug discovery project underpinned by synthetic medicinal chemistry to reposition an antihistamine drug for malaria by addressing its cardiotoxicity risk. He is a fellow of the Novartis Next Generation Scientist program (2018).