Valerie Mizrahi is the director of the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine and a professor at the University of Cape Town. She directs the MRC/NHLS/UCT Molecular Mycobacteriology Research Unit and heads the UCT node of the DST/NRF Centre of Excellence for Biomedical TB Research. She was an International Research Scholar of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) from 2000-2010, and in 2012, was selected as a Senior International Research Scholar of the HHMI. She has published more than 100 papers in the fields of organic chemistry, biochemistry, and mycobacteriology. In 2007, she received the Order of the Mapungubwe (Silver). Her other awards include the 2000 Unesco-L’Oreal For Women in Science Award (African and Middle East Region), the Gold and Silver Medals of the South African Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and the President’s Award from the South African National Research Foundation. Valerie is an Associate Fellow of the Academy of Sciences of the Developing World, a Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa, and a Member of the Academy of Science of South Africa. In 2009, she was elected to Fellowship of the American Academy of Microbiology.
