Country of Residence
Discipline(s)
GYA Roles
Institution
Faculty of Sciences, University of Yaounde 1
Department of Organic Chemistry
PO BOX: 812 Yaounde, Cameroon
Faculty of Sciences, University of Yaounde 1,
Research Interests
- Natural Products Chemistry – Isolation, characterization, and bioactivity evaluation of secondary metabolites.
- Drug Discovery for Infectious Diseases – Exploring bioactive compounds from natural resources.
- Dereplication & Structural Elucidation – Rapid identification of known and novel compounds.
- Metabolomics – Profiling and analyzing complex natural extracts.
- Biodiversity & Natural Resources – Investigating chemical diversity in medicinal plants and fungi.
- Medicinal Plants & Traditional Medicine – Bridging ethnopharmacology with modern drug discovery.
Topics to speak on:
Natural products, Dereplication, structural elucidation, Metabolomics, Biodiversity and Natural Resources, Medicinal Plants and Traditional Medicine
“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.” – Mother Teresa
Biography
Awards
Canadian Commonwealth Exchange Program Grant, University of Manitoba, Canada (2009)
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) doctoral fellowship, University of Göttingen, Germany (2014)
DST-NRF fellow, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa (2016_2019)
Royal Society of Chemistry-Research Fund grant, R21-2669287010 (2021)
DAAD Research Stays for University Academics and Scientists, University of Mainz, Germany (2022)
Schlumberger Faculty for the Future Foundation award (2024)
Activities