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Valerie Mizrahi is an Professor Emerita and Senior Scholar at the University of Cape Town where she led the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, which is renowned for its research programs on tuberculosis (TB), HIV and HIV-associated TB, from 2011-2023. She is a former International Research Scholar and Senior International Research Scholar of the HHMI and served as founding co-director of a national center of excellence in biomedical tuberculosis research and director an extramural research unit of the South African Medical Research Council for more than 20 years. Valerie's research focuses on aspects of the physiology and metabolism of Mycobacterium tuberculosis relevant to TB drug discovery, drug resistance and mycobacterial persistence. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, African Academy of Science and Royal Society of South Africa, Associate Fellow of The World Academy of Science, and member of the Academy of Science of South Africa. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Valerie has served on numerous scientific advisory boards locally and abroad. She has trained more than 85 postgraduate students and postdoctoral fellows, some of whom have moved into leadership positions in South Africa and abroad. She has also sponsored and/or mentored many other students, postdocs and junior faculty, and has made significant contributions to programs supporting the career development of dozens of emerging researchers from across Africa.