AFIEROHO OZADHEOGHENE ERIARIE

Brief Biography

AFIEROHO, Ozadheoghene Eriarie MRSC, MNSP, MICCON, MIPAN, is currently a Professor of Phytomedicinal Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Analysis in the Department of Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, as well as being the Acting Director, Institute of Natural Medicine, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria. He is a year 2004 Batch B National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) state honours award winner for community development initiatives in Oyo State, Nigeria and a year 2015 Royal Society of Chemistry/JWT Jones post-doctoral research Fellow. He has over eighteen years research and teaching experience cutting across industry pharmaceutical R&D, and university level teaching/research with over seventy (70) peer-reviewed publications and conference papers in the areas of Phytomedicines, pharmaceutical analysis, nutrition and toxicology. Some of these research publications have earned him international recognition like the RSC-P&G and RSC-PACN Best poster abstract presenter awards. Since obtaining a Ph.D. in 2014, he has successfully supervised and graduated five PhDs and eleven Masters students and currently supervising several others. His long term research goal is to develop a data base of metabolites from indigenous medicinal plants and their dosage forms in Nigeria that could serve as leads for drug development, and for biomarkers in the development of monographs for their standardization and quality assessment. He is also interested in the discovery and development of plant-derived eco-friendly agro-chemicals for sustainable foods and health. He is a certified Public Analyst of the Federal Republic of Nigerian (MIPAN) and also member of the Royal Society of Chemistry, United Kingdom(MRSC), Member Nigerian Society of Pharmacognosy(MNSP), and Member, Institute of Chartered Chemists of Nigeria(MICCON). He is married to Mercy C Afieroho- the help meet for him.

Current/on-going Research interest

1. Using chemical ecology as a tool for the discovery and development of drugs and eco-friendly agrochemicals
2. Monograph development for the standardization of herbal medicinal preparations
3. Evaluation of the nutraceutical potentials of some under-utilised seeds/fruits and spices in Nigeria.
4. Analytical method development and validation for agrochemicals and pharmaceutically useful agents
5. Isolation and synthesis of bioactive natural products

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