Professor Monde Ntwasa

Professor Monde Ntwasa

Prof Ntwasa is a Professor of Biotechnology at the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences. He is also Acting as Deputy Executive Dean of CAES.  He completed matric at St Johns College in Mthatha and graduated in BSc Microbiology and BSc (Clinical Science and Immunology) at the University of Cape Town. Later he graduated with MPhil and Ph.D. at Cambridge University (United Kingdom). Prof Ntwasa returned to the University of Cape Town as a Research Fellow and later accepted a position as Lecturer in Biochemistry at the University of the Witwatersrand. After 17 years at Wits, when he was an associate professor in Biochemistry, he accepted a position at the University of South Africa as a Full Professor in Biotechnology. Professor Ntwasa is currently conducting research in cancer and is developing small molecule drugs for the treatment of cancer.