Dr. Evelyne Nafuna Wanzala

Lecturer, Department of Pharmacognosy & Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Synthetic Pharmaceutical Chemistry & Medicinal Chemistry

PhD (Pharmaceutical Chemistry) — Kenyatta University (from September 2011)

MSc (Pharmaceutical Chemistry) — Nagasaki University, Japan, 2007

BEd (Science) — Kenyatta University, 2004

Synthetic Pharmaceutical Chemistry — development of new synthetic routes toward biologically active compounds

Medicinal Chemistry & Drug Design

Pharmaceutical Analysis

Antitrypanosomal compounds from Meliaceae plant species

Wanzala, E.N., Gikonyo, N.K., Murilla, G., Githua, M., & Hassanali, A. (2017). In vitro and in vivo anti-trypanosomal activities of methanol extract of Azadirachta indica stem-bark. African Journal of Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 14(6): 72–77.
Sarkar, S.M., Wanzala, E.N., Shibahara, S., Takahashi, K., Ishihara, J., & Hatakeyama, S. (2010). Formal Synthesis of (+)-Phoslactomycin B. Synfacts, (02): 0134–0134.
Sarkar, S.M., Wanzala, E.N., Shibahara, S., Takahashi, K., Ishihara, J., & Hatakeyama, S. (2009). Enantio- and stereoselective route to the phoslactomycin family of antibiotics: formal synthesis of (+)-fostriecin and (+)-phoslactomycin B. Chemical Communications, (39): 5907–5909.

Wanzala, E.N. (2015). Identification of antitrypanosomal constituents of some Meliaceae species and screening of selected structural variants by in vitro and in vivo assays.