Dr Brandon Weber

Chief Research Officer, Director for Centre for Bioprocess Engineering Research

Qualifications

• BSc (Biochemistry), University of Cape Town (1993)
• BSc (Hons)(Med), University of Cape Town (1994)
• PhD (Chemical Pathology), University of Cape Town (2000)

Research Affiliations

• Centre for Bioprocess Engineering Research (Cape Town)

Research Interests

• Protein structural analysis
• Enzyme mechanism
• Protein production and purification
• mRNA vaccine development
• Antigen design
• Downstream process design
• mRNA LNP formulation

Brandon has extensive experience in protein production and purification for structural analysis by electron microscopy and x-ray diffraction in the Electron Microscope Unit and Structural Biology research group at UCT. He has industry experience from Afrigen Biologics, the WHO appointed mRNA technology transfer hub to LMICs, where he served as Specialist Scientist. His research, as the Director of the Center for Bioprocess Engineering Research, focuses on next generation therapeutics design and bioprocess optimization.