Sechaba, PhD
Associate Professor, Advanced Agriculture and Food
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Pretoria, South Africa
Biography
Bareetseng holds a PhD in microbiology and a Master of Management in innovation studies, as well as several certificates, such as in advanced intellectual property management, bioentrepreneurship and science leadership. He is managing a portfolio of projects and programmes on indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) on the medicinal use of traditional medicines for research, development and commercialisation that are funded by national government (through its science, technology and innovation agencies) and international organisations, such as the United Nations Development Programme.
Bareetseng is an affiliated associate professor at the University of the Free State (microbiology and biochemistry) and an extraordinary senior lecturer at North-West University. He co-supervises PhD and Masters? students at these universities, as well as at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He is also mentoring CSIR candidate researchers on IKS and community engagements and Honours students from the University of Venda. Bareetseng has contributed several research publications in journals of repute in the fields of microbiology and IKS.
Research Interest
Traditional medicine research and development
In vitro biological assays
In vivo studies
Clinical research
Ethnopharmacology
Medical microbiology
