Dr. Madira Litedu is the Medicine Registration Officer at SAHPRA with over 12 years’ experience. Her job entails evaluating the safety, quality and efficacy aspects of new applications (New chemical entities, generics pre-registration) SAHPRA, ICH, FDA and WHO guidelines for MRF, CTD and eCTD applications. To enhance patient access to medicines, she supervised a PhD student, publishing articles to promote transparency between SAHPRA, pharmaceutical companies, manufacturers and clinical research organisations.

Before joining MCC, she worked as a research scientist at Chemical Process Technologies, developing methods for cost-effective animal healthcare products to match or exceed local & international product trends as well as to satisfy customer expectations.

Dr. Litedu obtained her BSc, BSc (Hons), and MSc from the University of the Free State and a PhD in Organic Chemistry from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.