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Abiy Yenesew

Abiy Yenesew

Editorial Board Member
University of Nairobi Kenya Member since 2019

Biography

Abiy Yenesew is a Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Nairobi, Kenya with an extensive experience in teaching of Organic Chemistry and conducting research in the field of Natural Products Chemistry. For the last thirty years, he had been involved in the investigation of Eastern African plants for bioactive natural products. His research interest is on East African medicinal plants, especially those belonging to the families Fabaceae and Asphodelaceae for anti-infective principles. He has over 90 publications in peer reviewed journals. He has also co-authored three books on medicinal plants of East Africa. He has served as reviewer to several international journals and examined some 30 PhD and MSc theses in Africa. He is a subject editor of the journal, Phytochemistry Letters, which is the official organ of the Phytochemical Society of Europe. He is also Editorial Board member of the Journal of Natural Products and Journal of Ethnopharmacology. He has co-supervised fourteen PhD and thirty two MSc students. He has served as the Program Officer (2006-2009), and later as the Assistant Secretary (2009-2013) of a regional organization called, the Natural Product Research Network for Eastern and Central Africa (NAPRECA). In recognition of scintific contribution, has been elected as a Fellow of the African Academy of Science as of February 2017.

Research Interests

East African medicinal plants

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