Cloudius Ray Sagandira

Cloudius is a Principal Researcher in the Pharmaceutical Technologies research group at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). As the scientific lead on continuous flow processes development for active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) manufacturing, his research employs modern manufacturing technologies to develop improved processes to critical pharmaceuticals. Cloudius's research is paving the way to establishing a modern, sustainable and economic pharmaceutical manufacturing platform at the CSIR that will support the further development of a fledgling pharmaceutical manufacturing sector in Africa. The grand vision of his research is to establish local API manufacturing capabilities to ensure self-sufficiency in pharmaceiticals and improve accessibility to medicines in Africa.

Cloudius received his PhD (Chemistry) in 2019 from the Nelson Mandela University. He did his postdoctral training at different intistitutions such as Chimie ParisTech - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL), DiverChim CDMO and Nelson Mandela University. Cloudius briefly joined Novartis Pharma in Basel as a Next Generation Scientist (NGS) intern.