Jane Namukobe

RISE Degree(s)

PhD in Chemistry from Makerere University

RISE Network(s)

RISE-AFNNET

Nationality

Ugandan

Employment

Lecturer, Department of Physiological Sciences, COVAB, Makerere University

Research

PhD: Phytochemical and antiplasmodial studies of medicinal plants used by humans and chimpanzees in and around Kibale National Park (abstract)

Currently: Natural products chemistry with particular reference to searching for antimalarial and antimicrobial agents from medicinal plants; structural elucidation of natural products by use of spectroscopic methods; synthesis of bioactive natural products

News & Blogs

African Scientists Win Grants to Create R&D Networks

Special Accomplishments

2016 SIDA Postdoctoral Research (PI): Evaluation of the potential of medicinal plants used in skin protection (Ongoing)

Representative for Uganda at the 2015 Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Associate Programme

Selected Conference Papers & Presentations

Bioprospecting for Antimalarials from Medicinal Plants | 2016 RISE Meeting

Selected Publications

Byamukama R, Waninda EN, Mukama D, Namukobe J. 2016. Hippeastrum hybridum anthocyanins as indicators of endpoint in acid–base titrations. Int. J. Biol. Chem. Sci. 10(6):2716–27

Namukobe J, Kiremire BT, Byamukama R, Kasenene JM, Akala HM, Kamau E, Dumontet V. 2015. Antiplasmodial compounds from the stem bark of Neoboutonia macrocalyx pax. J Ethnopharmacol 162(13):317-322.

Byamukama R, Barbara G, Namukobe J, Heydenreich M, Kiremire BT. 2015. Bioactive compounds in the stem bark of Albizia coriaria (Welw. ex Oliver). Int. J. Biol. Chem. Sci. 9(2):1013–24

Namukobe J, Kiremire BT, Byamukama R, Kasenene JM, Dumontet V, Guéritte F, Krief FS, Florent I, Kabasa JD. 2014. Cycloartane triterpenes from the leaves of Neoboutonia macrocalyx L. Phytochem 102: 189-196.