Prof. Dr. Festus B. Okoye

Profile

Academic position	Full Professor
Research fields	Natural Product Chemistry,Medical Microbiology and Mycology, Hygiene, Molecular Infection Biology
Keywords	Natural Products, Antimicrobial, Molecular docking, Antimycobacterial, Endophytic Fungi
Honours and awards	2018: Award of Scholarship by ARC Academy Supply Chain Training Programme for Cohort 2 2015: Travel Grant Award to present oral paper at the African Research Network on Neglected Tropical Diseases, held from 17-19, November, Protea Hotels Blyantaya, Malawi. 2014: Travel Grant Award to present Oral paper at the Pan African Chemistry Network Conference holding from November 30 to December 2 at the United Nations Conference Centre, Addis Ababa Ethiopia 2014: Travel Grant Award to the African Research Network on Neglected Tropical Diseases, held from October 30 - 23rd, 2014 at Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany. 2014: Winner of African Union-The World Academy of Science (AU-TWAS) Young Scientist National Award (Life and Earth Science Category 2011: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany 2010: StepB Innovators of tomorrow award 2009: Postdoctoral Fellow, International Centre for Science and High Technology (ICS-UNIDO) 2000: Departmental Prize to the Best Graduating Student Department of Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry 1992: Best graduating student Community Secondary School Awo-Idemili, Orsu LGA Imo State

Current contact address

Country	Nigeria
City	Awka
Institution	Nnamdi Azikiwe University
Institute	Department of Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Peter Proksch	Institut für Pharmazeutische Biologie und Biotechnologie, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf
Prof. Dr. Rainer Kalscheuer	Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie und Krankenhaushygiene, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf
Start of initial sponsorship	01/05/2011

Programme(s)

2010	Georg Forster Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2015	Festus B. Okoye, Wamtinga Richard Sawadogo, Jandirk Sendker AmalH.Aly, Bettina Quandt Victor Wray, Andreas Hensel, Charles O.Esimone, Abdessamad Debbab, Marc Diederich, Peter Proksch: Flavonoid glycosides from Olax manni: Structure elucidation and effect on the nuclear factor kappa B pathway. In: Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 2015, 27-34
2015	Festus B. Okoye, Matthias O. Agbo, Chukwuemeka S. Nworu, Ngozi J. Nwodo, Charles C. Esimone, Patience O. Osadebe, Peter Proksch: New neolignan glycoside and an unusual benzoyl maleic acid derivative from Maytenus senegalensis leaves. . In: Natural Product Research, 2015, 109-115
2015	Festus B. Okoye, Chukwuemeka S. Nworu, Abdessamad Debbab, Charles O. Esimone, Peter Proksch: Two new Cytochalasins from an endophytic fungus, KL-1.1 isolated from Psidium guajava leaves. In: Phytochemistry Letters, 2015, 51-55
2014	Festus B.C. Okoye, Abdessamad Debbab, Victor Wray, Charles O. Esimone, Patience O. Osadebe, Peter Proksch: A phenyldilactone, bisnorsesquiterpene, and cytotoxic phenolics from Maytenus senegalensis leaves. In: Tetrahedron Letters, 2014, 3756-3760
2013	Festus B.C. Okoye, Su Lu, Chukwuemeka S. Nworu, Charles O. Esimone, Peter Proksch, Ahmed Chadli, Abdessamad Debbab. : Depsidone and diaryl ether derivatives from the fungus Corynespora cassiicola, an endophyte of Gongronema latifolium. In: Tetrahedron Letters, 2013, 4210-4214
2013	Festus B.C. Okoye, Chukwuemeka S. Nworu, Peter A. Akah, Charles O. Esimone, Abdesamad Debbab, Peter Proksch.: Inhibition of inflammatory mediators and reactive oxygen and nitrogen species by some depsidones and diaryl ether derivatives isolated from Corynespora cassiicola, an endophytic fungus of Gongronema latifolium leaves. In: Immunopharmacology and Immunotoxicology, 2013, 662-668