Dr Phiyani Lebea has been in the diagnostics field for over 10 years with experience within the public research institute (CSIR) and the private sector. He also worked at Roche Diagnostics. His interests include design, development and commercialisation of animal/human pathogen detection and diagnostics assays. He has academic interests in animal vaccine design and development in line with the One Health concept. His interests include recent focus on animal disease control to facilitate export of animal commodities in the African continent. Dr Phiyani Lebea is currently the Managing Director and Chief Scientific Officer at TokaBio (Pty) Ltd. Within TokaBio he is responsible for commercialisation and validation of a pipeline of point-of-care detection assays that have relevance to the African continent. His group at TokaBio is responsible for development of isothermal PCR assays for the detection of South African variant of SARS-CoV-2
