Dr Shama Khan is a Scientist in Bioinformatics and Drug Discovery at SAMRC Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics (VIDA) Research Unit. She holds a PhD in Computational Pharmaceutical Chemistry and brings over six years of experience in drug discovery, antimicrobial resistance (AMR), and infectious disease bioinformatics. Her research focuses on structure-based drug design and genomics to identify novel therapeutics targeting multidrug-resistant pathogens, particularly Klebsiella pneumoniae and Acinetobacter baumannii. Dr Khan has published extensively in high-impact peer-reviewed journals and contributed to multiple collaborative, translational projects. In addition to her research, she is actively involved in postgraduate supervision, student mentorship, and the coordination of capacity-building workshops in computational drug discovery. She has held prestigious postdoctoral fellowships including SARChI and NRF Innovation awards and is a joint researcher in the School of Pathology at Wits University. Dr Khan is also a principal project leader at the Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC) facility in South Africa..