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6 May 2026 | Basel, Switzerland

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Njabulo Skhosana

Co-Founder and CEO

CureRoot

Johannesburg, South Africa

Co-Founder of CureRoot. Leading a team harnessing Africa's biodiversity to discover safer, and more effective drugs for global health issues

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CureRoot

CureRoot

SME

Johannesburg, South Africa

CureRoot is a drug discovery company developing novel therapeutics from Africa's largely unexplored medicinal plant biodiversity. We develop novel pre-clinical drug candidates from drug-like plant metabolite scaffolds, focusing specifically on oncology, cardiometabolic disease, and infectious diseases - therapeutic areas where plant-derived molecules have a strong history of clinical success. We are actively seeking strategic out-licensing agreements and co-development partnerships to accelerate our pre-clinical programs, giving pharma collaborators exclusive access to high-value therapeutic candidates. Based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Backed by OneBio Venture Studio and Google, amongst others
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