User:Adjoajo/Daniel

Daniel Snzile Ndima is a South African structural biologist and engineer. His speciality is in genetic/protein engineering and Crystallography. He is the CEO and co-founder of CapeBio along with Dineo Lioma, He is a Allan Gray Orbis fellow. The CapeBio company has developed a coronavirus testing kit. The kit is called qPCR. The Coronavirus test kits produce results in 65 minutes. Ndima says, “Our kits help pathologists isolate and identify a virus’s DNA or genetic material from an infected person. This makes it possible to detect the virus accurately in a laboratory.”

Early Life
Ndima was born in Eastern Cape, South Africa and grew up in Cape Town, South Africa. He graduated from University of Western Cape in South Africa.

Career
Ndima is a Allan Gray Orbis Foundation Fellow, and the CEO and co-founder of CapeBio Technologies. The Allan Gray Orbis Foundation was founded by Allan Gray (investor). Ndima works with a group of researchers that manufacture reagents enzymes as business developer of the start-up and product development. The company produces molecular biology reagents, enzymes and kits. These products are used at universities, research councils, and companies in South Africa and United States. Ndima attended University of Pretoria getting a Masters Degree in the Biochemistry Department.

Ndima is the author of 'Investigating the Potentially Expanded Target Repertoire of Murinized Internalin of Listeria Monocytogenes' that was published 2016.

Quotes
"This global pandemic is presenting us with serious health and economic threats, but I think it could present us with stimulated business mindsets going into the new world – so that, hopefully, we can build businesses rooted in kindness to all our people and a sense of responsibility and patriotism to our nation."

Awards

 * 2015 - Mandela Rhodes Scholarship
 * 2016 - Brightest Young Minds Alumnus