Professor Sabiha Essack (B. Pharm., M. Pharm., PhD), Professor in the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of KwaZulu-Natal is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow who completed research towards her PhD in Pharmaceutical Microbiology at St Bartholomew’s and the Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry in the United Kingdom. She received several prestigious scholarships and bursaries from the Wellcome Trust, Medical Research Council, National Research Foundation and the University of Durban-Westville during the course of her Masters and PhD studies. Her research has been published in several journals and has been presented at a number of national and international conferences.