About Viness Pillay
Viness Pillay was a South African scientist and university teacher.
Viness Pillay FAAS (1970–2020) was a South African professor of pharmacy at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. He was the Director of the Wits Advanced Drug Delivery Platform (WADDP), a member of African Academy of Sciences, Academy of Translational Medicine Professionals (ATMP) and a beneficiary of the 2013 Olusegun Obasanjo Innovative Award for developing the RapiDiss Wafer Technology as an innovative way to provide effective anti-retroviral (ARV) drug therapy to children afflicted with HIV/AIDS.
Education He obtained his master's degree in pharmacy from the University of Durban-Westville (South Africa) in 1996 and bagged his PhD at Temple University in 2000 as a Fulbright Scholar.
Death Pillay died on 24 July 2020 after a lengthy illness. He left behind a wife and a daughter.
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