What’s rare about this lab that’s searching for new medicines : NPR0

• HEALTH
• March 22, 2026

Kelly Chibale founded the Holistic Drug Discovery and Development Centre at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, a facility with everything needed to discover drugs for some of humanity’s most intractable ailments. Tommy Trenchard for NPR hide caption toggle caption Tommy Trenchard for NPR Kelly Chibale says that the hunt for new drugs