Takunda previously earned a master's in chemical biology with distinctions from the University of Cape Town exploring novel immunotherapy against triple negative breast cancers.

Uh, th-thank you very much, uh, Weld, for the invitation, and thank you very much for, you know, the interesting, uh, podcast that is going on here.

Um, so I'll, I'll, I'll briefly run through, uh, my journey to date.

2015, that's when I started my, uh, undergraduate degree in Applied Biosciences and Biotechnology, uh, at the Midlands State University in Zimbabwe.

So that was a four-year program, and I remember in my second year, we had a lot of modules that ended with OGY, so there was bacteriology, uh, immunology, mycology.

All these modules were very interesting and fascinating to me.

And you know, the concept of immunology has been introduced to me when I was in high school, when you start to realize how the body knows some things that you do not consciously know in your head, um, how it's able to defend itself against foreign invaders and all.

Okay.