A blog post from Nyaboke Omwega, Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Anthropology and member of the GCRF CDT. My research on gender discrimination (Transport as Gendered Employment Practice in Kenya) has led me to look at Kenyan history. It is impossible to discuss female leadership in Kenya without discussing Wangari Maathai (1940-2011). Internationally, she was […]
On the 4th January 2021 an event dubbed as a “Research Dissemination Exhibition”, was launched at the Makerere University Art gallery. Read our interview with the artist and PhD candidate: Could you tell us a bit about yourself? I am an applied sculptor and Lecturer at the College of Engineering, Art, Design and Technology (CEDAT) […]
Victor was born and raised in the State of Sao Paulo, Brazil, where he completed his BSc in Biomedical Sciences at the University of Sao Paulo (USP). In the last years of his undergraduate studies, Victor worked at the Department of Parasitology (USP) with Leishmania spp, the aethiological agent of an important neglected disease called leishmaniasis. He developed luminescent parasites aiming to improve the drug testing of new treatments to this disease. During that time, he attended to a student mobility programme as a research student for one year in Germany at the Faculty of Biology, University of Münster. Currently, Victor is a Ph.D candidate at the Department of Chemistry in Durham University. His project will focus on trying to expand the arsenal against leishmaniasis, an important neglected disease, based on repurposing strategies combined with synthetical chemistry techniques.
Department of Chemistry
Repurposing old drugs to refresh the anti-leishmanial pipeline
Brazil
Prof Patrick Steel (Department of Chemistry)
Dr Paul Denny (Department of Biosciences)
Dr Silivia Uliana (University of Sao Paulo)
