Prof Fawzi MAHOMOODALLY

Prof MAHOMOODALLY is the Head of Department at the Department of Health Sciences, Board Member of Association for African Medicinal Plant Standards. He was nominated as the TWAS-ROSSA young Affiliate (2012-2016), member of the Global Young Academy (2013-2018), recipient of the Young Promising Scientist to attend the TWAS/BVA.NXT Biovision 2012 Egypt and the ASM Leadership grant to Boston, USA (2013).

He was the chairperson of African Traditional Medicine committee (ARSO-MSB) from 2014-2015. Fawzi is an active researcher and the principal supervisor of >100 undergraduate, 6 MSc, 10 MPhil/PhD projects working on medicinal properties of functional foods/medicinal herbs. Fawzi works in the field of health sciences, with a deep-rooted interest in ethnopharmacology and towards documenting/validating the use of complementary and alternative medicine and traditional knowledge pertaining to the use of natural products/nutraceuticals (medicinal herbs/spices/food plants/animal products/practices) from Africa. He aims to convey accurate scientific data back to the local and the scientific community. He also endeavours to develop therapeutic bio-products (supplements and nutraceuticals) from local medicinal herbs/food plants to address global health, wellness, and food security issues. He is presently collaborating with private companies to translate his basic research into commercial bio-products.

Prof Fawzi has authored 209 scientific publications (130 full scientific papers in ISSN/impact factor journals, edited 4 academic books, 33 book chapters, and 41 abstracts in international/national conferences). He is recipient of > 40 fellowships/travel grants/plenary speaker to attend international seminars, teaching tool workshops/conferences; namely the International Brain Research Organization fellowship to attend training schools in Africa (University of Cape-Town-South Africa, Fayoum University-Egypt, Rhodes University-South Africa, and Reunion University-France) and the SAN-Bio(Nepad) workshop-South Africa, Global Knowledge Initiative (Uganda), Turkish Society of Pain, (Istanbul-Turkey). 

In 2011, he was invited as a key speaker at the 14th Asian Chemical Congress (Bangkok, Thailand) and in 2018 in Bangalore; ASM-GM (Boston, USA), the ICAAC meeting in Colorado, USA (2013) and 6 strategic meetings in Washington DC, USA (2014-2015). He was recently invited to the commonwealth conference (Bangalore) by the Royal Society, UK, the Young leader session with Nobel Laureates at the STS forum, Kyoto, Japan (Oct 2015) and Fellow of African Science Leadership Programme 2016-2017, University of Pretoria-South Africa and fellow of Novartis scholarship. He is presently the Principal Investigator and co-PI of 7 research grants/consortium regionally/internationally. He has organized/instructed >18 international/ national workshops/training courses in Germany, Italy, Spain, China, UAE, France and USA.

Prof Fawzi is the scientific editor/reviewer of > 60 peer-reviewed international scientific journals and international grant reviewer for UK, Germany, UNESCO, South Africa, and Netherland. He has been nominated and chaired > 36 national/international committees: executive member of the National Pharmacovigilance Committee, Ministry of Health & Quality of Life (MoHQL- Mauritius); National Research Foresight Exercise (MRC-Mauritius), Ayurvedic Committee and a technical member for the innovators award IV by the National Productivity and Competitiveness Council.

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Dr. Denis Zofou, PhD

Dr. Denis Zofou is a Cameroon-based pharmacologist, with a particular interest in drug discovery and development against major tropical diseases and Diabetes, especially from natural products at the University of Buea Drug Research and Development Unit (Medical Research and Applied Biochemistry Laboratory – Faculty of Health Sciences),

Dr. Zofou and collaborators have been working towards optimizing the quality of natural products both as standardized phytomedicines or source of new drug candidates. They have succeeded establishing a Drug quality control and screening platform including in vitro and in vivo settings for malaria, Bacterial Infections, Diabetes and Kidney diseases. Mapping drug resistance patterns through molecular epidemiology of malaria is part of their future goals. Their research activities have benefited from financial support from The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), the International Society for Science (IFS), the African Organization for Intellectual Property (OAPI), and a technical/material support from BEI-Resources (USA). Dr. Zofou has co-authored one book chapter and about 40 scientific articles in internationally renowned journals. He has co-supervised more than ten M.Sc. Students and one Ph.D.
Dr. Zofou is laureate of the 2014 TWAS-ROSSA Young Scientists Prize in Applied Sciences; awarded by The World Academy of Sciences, in recognition of his studies on anti-malarial products for the treatment of drug resistant malaria.
Dr. Zofou is fellow/member of some national and international learned organizations including the Cameroon Society of Biosciences, the African Network for Drug Discovery and Diagnosis Innovation (ANDI), The African Scientific Institute (ASI), The International Society of Infectious Diseases (ISID), the International Society of Pharamcoeconomics and Outcome Research (ISPOR). 

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