Prof. Dr. Festus B. Okoye

Profil

Derzeitige Stellung	Professor W-3 und Äquivalente
Fachgebiet	Naturstoffchemie,Medizinische Mikrobiologie und Mykologie, Hygiene, Molekulare Infektionsbiologie
Keywords	Natural Products, Antimicrobial, Molecular docking, Antimycobacterial, Endophytic Fungi
Auszeichnungen	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

Aktuelle Kontaktadresse

Land	Nigeria
Ort	Awka
Universität/Institution	Nnamdi Azikiwe University
Institut/Abteilung	Department of Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry

Gastgeber*innen während der Förderung

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
Beginn der ersten Förderung	01.05.2011

Programm(e)

2010	Georg Forster-Forschungsstipendien-Programm für Postdocs

Publikationen (Auswahl)

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