Affiliation: Sefako Makgatho Health Science University

Dr. Mkolo N.M., obtained her PhD in Para-clinical Sciences from the University of Pretoria, in 2020. Currently, she is affiliated with Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University (SMU) South Africa, where she serves as a Lecturer and Researcher. She has collaborated and worked in diverse Phytomedicine related fields; metabolomics, proteomics, and molecular docking in multiple settings locally and internationally. Moreover, she continues to enhance her niche area as she has/is supervised/ing and mentoring a post-Doctoral researcher, 11 MSc students, 19 honours students, and 2 PhD students. She has published in different journals locally and internationally. She is currently representing the SMU Task Team on Internationalization, the sequel to the renewed dispensation to foreground Internationalization on all fronts at SMU. Recently, she was awarded NRF Black Academics Advancement Programme (BAAP) funding and South African Medical Research Council’s (SAMRC) funding. She also received the Vice Chancellor’s Award for Best Researcher under 40 years of age provided by SMU. Her academic pedigree is further exemplified by being the Principal Investigator of a project on the Integration of metabolomic fingerprinting and molecular docking analysis of secondary metabolites of South African plants: Focus on protease (Mpro) and spike (S) glycoprotein of SARS-CoV-2, funded by SAMRC.