{"id":442,"date":"2023-11-07T11:32:09","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T11:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/?page_id=442"},"modified":"2026-01-26T14:15:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T14:15:40","slug":"mokhitli-morake","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/group\/protac-ac-bi-team\/mokhitli-morake\/","title":{"rendered":"Mokhitli Morake"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel \">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><source class=\"lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/2023\/11\/Mokhitli-Profile-Picture-copy.webp\" alt=\"Mokhitli Morake\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source class=\"lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/2023\/11\/Mokhitli-Profile-Picture-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Mokhitli Morake\" type=\"image\/jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/2023\/11\/Mokhitli-Profile-Picture-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Mokhitli Morake\"><br \/>\n  <\/source><\/source><\/figure>\n<h2>Degree(s)<\/h2>\n<p>BSc Med (Hons) Medicinal Biochemistry (2012), University of Cape Town<br \/>\nMSc Pharmaceutical Chemistry (2017), North-West University<br \/>\nPhD Chemistry (2022), University of Cape Town<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"field-label\">Staff email<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:MMorake001@dundee.ac.uk\">MMorake001@dundee.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Profile<\/h2>\n<p>Mokhitli completed his BSc Med(Hons) in 2012 from the University of Cape Town (UCT) and then MSc in Pharmaceutical Chemistry (2017) at North-West University working on the synthesis of artemisinin-based compounds against malaria and tuberculosis supervised by Prof David N\u2019Da and Prof Richard Haynes. Following this he joined H3D, the drug discovery and development centre at UCT, as a scientific officer in medicinal chemistry. He then pursued PhD in Chemistry (2022) under the supervision of Prof Kelly Chibale and Dr Greg Basarab. In 2022 he took a postdoctoral fellowship and lecturing position at the Rhodes University hosted by Prof David Khanye. He joins the CeTPD as a scientist in the AC-BI team. In his spare time, he enjoys reading, hiking and endurance running.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Degree(s) BSc Med (Hons) Medicinal Biochemistry (2012), University of Cape Town MSc Pharmaceutical Chemistry (2017), North-West University PhD Chemistry (2022), University of Cape Town Staff email MMorake001@dundee.ac.uk Profile Mokhitli completed his BSc Med(Hons) in 2012 from the University of Cape Town (UCT) and then MSc in Pharmaceutical Chemistry (2017) at North-West University working on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":435,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-442","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4450,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/442\/revisions\/4450"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}