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Dr. Bernard Juma

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Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry

School of Natural Science (MMUST)

P.O. Box 190-50100

Kakamega, KENYA

Office no. SPD Block B Room 309

Kakamega-Webuye Road

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Dr. Benard F. Juma

Dr. Benard F. Juma holds a doctorate degree in Organic Chemistry (Natural Products Chemistry) earned at the University of Botswana. He is also an Alexander von Huboldt Fellow having carried out his post doc research at the Universität Rostock, Institut für Chemie in Germany under this prestigeous Fellowship. He is an experienced Organic Chemist involved in total synthesis of natural products, phytochemical studies, structure elucidation of organic compounds, modern isolation techniques, activity evaluation of compounds and structure activity relationships amongst others. His research interests are in the area of bioactive natural products found in Kenyan Medicinal plants and related species which focuses on investigation for Pharmacologically active compounds from the family Meliaceae, with emphasis on antimalarials, antimicrobials and cytotoxical entities with potential anticancer activities.

Dr.Juma's recent interest is investigation of marine organisms for  compounds or combinations with similar activites and targeted synthesis and modification of pharmacologically useful natural compounds, coupled with study of structure activity relationships. He currently serves as the chairman of the Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, at MMUST.

Some of his key published works include: -

  1. Ondeko DA, Juma BF.* Lilechi DB and Nyongesa PK (2020); LC-ESI/MS and GC-MS methanol extract analysis, phytochemical and antimicrobial activity studies of Centella asiatica. Asian Journal of Chemical Sciences. 8 (3): 32 – 51. DOI: 10.9734/AJOCS/2020/v8i319046
  2. Armwood, S , Juma BF, Ombito JO, Majinda RRT and Gwebu ET (2018); Effect of erythrinaline alkaloids from Erythrina lysistemon on human recombinant caspase-3, African Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology 12(15): 183-187. org/10.5897/AJPP2016.4628
  3. Wekesa Neser1, Lilechi, D. Baraza1*, Cheruiyot Jackson, Ochieno Dennis, Juma B.F,2 Kamau R. Wairimu1 , Sigot Asenath3 and Matthias Heydenreich,4 (2016); Antimicrobial Coumarins from the Oyster Culinary-Medicinal Mushroom, Pleurotus ostreatus (Agaricomycetes), from Kenya. International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms 18(10):905-913. DOI: 10.1615/IntJMedMushrooms.v18.i10.60
  4. Rahab W. Kamau, Danstone L. Baraza and Benard F. Juma*(2015); Antimicrobial compounds from Melia Natural Products Research. DOI:10.1080/14786419.2015.1101104
  5. Benard Juma, Muhammad Adeel, Alexander Villinger, Helmut Reinke, Anke Spannenberg, Christine Fischer, Peter Langer, (2011); Synthesis of 2,6-Dioxo-1,2,3,4,5,6-hexahydroindoles and their Transformation into 5,8,9,10-Tetrahydro-6H-indolo[2,1-a]isoquinolin-9-ones. The 14th NAPRECA Symposium and AAMPS Ethnoveterinary Medicine Symposium, ICIPE, Nairobi.

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