Khisi Mdluli PhD

Dr. Mdluli is a Director of Biology at the TB Alliance, responsible for evaluating discovery projects for inclusion in the TB Alliance portfolio and overseeing current drug discovery projects. A native of South Africa, Dr. Mdluli brings over a decade of drug discovery expertise in academia and industry, and is a highly regarded expert in the microbiology, molecular biology and biochemistry of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. A three-year Visiting Fellowship at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) resulted in a number of seminal publications by Dr. Mdluli that described the mechanism of action and a potential target for isoniazid and activation mechanism for ethionamide, first and second line TB drugs.