Mr. Prince Ojuka Profile
Name: Mr. Prince Ojuka
Title/Qualification: Bed Sci (UoEm), Msc. Chemistry (UoEm), PhD candidate (UoEm)
Position: Teaching Assistant
Department: Physical Sciences
School: Pure and Applied Sciences
Area of Specialization: Organic Chem/Cheminformatics/Nanotechnology/ Ethno-botany/Ethno-medicine
Contact Address: Physical Sciences Department, University of Embu. P.O Box 6 -60100 Embu
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Short Biography
Prince Ojuka holds an MSc in Chemistry and a BEd (Science) from the University of Embu, where he is also currently pursuing a PhD in Chemistry. He is a specialist in medicinal chemistry of natural products, with expertise in the isolation and structural elucidation of bioactive compounds, computer-aided drug design (including molecular modelling and QSAR studies), and the development of pharmaceutical nanotechnology formulations derived from natural sources.
Research Interests
- Isolation and structural characterization of bioactive natural compounds from plants and microorganisms
- Metabolomics and Phytochemical Profiling
- Investigation of structure–activity relationships (SAR) in natural products
- Development and standardization of analytical methods for herbal drug materials
- Drug repurposing: exploring new pharmacological uses of traditional herbal medicines
- Design and development of nanoformulations of natural products for pharmaceutical applications
- Ethnobotany and Ethnomedicine