Kirti Daya

Biopharming Research Unit
Supervisor: Dr Sandiswa Mbewana, Prof. Ed Rybicki 

I completed my undergrad at WITS in Cell and Molecular Biology. My honours project, also completed at WITS, focused on microbiology and plant virology. My Masters project here at BRU was supervised by Dr Mbewana and Dr van Zyl, in which I looked at the relevance of plant virus nanoparticles in a universal influenza vaccine. Using this research, I upgraded to my current PhD project which is the development of a dual vaccine in Nicotiana benthamiana. Through science, we can transform the world!