Gillian Mahumane

Institution

University of the Witwatersrand

Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology

Wits Parktown Health Sciences Campus, University of the Witwatersrand, 7 York road, Parktown, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa, 2193

Research Interests

Pharmaceutics

Pharmaceutical Science

Biomaterial scaffolds

Polymers

Neural tissue engineering

Electrospinning

Pharmaceutical microbiology

Pharmacy

Science communication

Words of Wisdom

“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” ― George Bernard Shaw

Biography

Dr. Gillian Dumsile Mahumane (Ph.D.) is a Lecturer of Biopharmaceutics at the Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology (University of the Witwatersrand); researcher, research support group (RSG) coordinator, Graduate Communications and Marketing Lead and the 2023 Jeiven/Centre for Biomedical Research fellow functioning as a Scientific Ambassador of the Wits Advanced Drug Delivery Platform (WADDP) research unit Global Health Innovation and Capacity Focus to work on collaborative projects in relation to technologies for women’s health that are developed at the WADDP. She holds a Bachelor of Pharmacy, a Master of Pharmacy (Pharmaceutical Microbiology and Pharmacognosy), and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, Pharmaceutical Science). Her PhD research project focused on the design and development of a nano-reinforced hydro-filled 3D scaffold for neural tissue engineering. , followed by in vivo analysis in a Sprague-Dawley rat traumatic brain injury model.

Health sciences, medicine

Medicine and health, Engineering

Chemistry, Technology (including Information Technology)

Awards

The Population Council (https://popcouncil.org/focus_area/sexual-reproductive-health-rights-choices/) prestigious Centre for Biomedical Research (CBR)/Jeiven Fellowship for 3 months in the United States of America. Functioning as a Scientific ambassador of the WADDP Global Health Innovation and Capacity Focus to work on collaborative projects with The Population Council in relation to Multi-Purpose Technologies (MPTs) for woman’s health that are developed at the WADDP

Post-graduate-research fellowship by the Wits Advanced Drug Delivery Platform, a division of the Wits Health Consortium

Early career academic grant (University of the Witwatersrand)

Wits-Carnegie Diversifying the Academy Enabling grant

Bongani Mayosi Scholarship Programme

PhD recognition grant