© 2015 Sarah E. Rich

Dominic Ochwang'i

RISE Degree(s) 

PhD in Animal Physiology from the University of Nairobi

RISE Network(s) 
RISE-AFNNET
Nationality 
Kenyan
Employment 

RISE-AFNNET PhD Student at the University of Nairobi

Tutorial Fellow, Department of Veterinary Anatomy and Physiology, University of Nairobi

Research 

Pharmacophysiological anticancer potential of medicinal plants used in Kakamega County, Kenya

Special Accomplishments 

Visiting Research Scholar (February–June 2015) working with Prof. Dr. Thomas Efferth in the Department of Pharmaceutical Biology, Institute of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany

Selected Publications 

Maina EN, Kinyi HW, Ochwang’i DO, Meroka AM, Wanyonyi WC. 2014. Liver toxicity of crude extract of Ficus natalensis traditionally used in southwestern Uganda. Afr. J. Pharmacol. Ther. 3(4):116–21.

Ochwang’i DO, Kimwele CN, Oduma JA, Gathumbi PK, Mbaria JM, Kiama SG. 2014. Medicinal plants used in treatment and management of cancer in Kakamega County, Kenya. J. Ethnopharmacol. 151(3):1040–55.

Ochwang’i D, Kimwele C, Kiama SG, Rice N. 2013. Transcriptional regulation of rat endothelial nitric oxide promoter in pulmonary myofibroblasts cells and its implications in pulmonary fibrosis. Afr. J. Pharmacol. Ther. 2(1):1–8.

RISE Degree(s) Completed 
September 2017