Boniface Pone Kamdem obtained his Ph.D. in Life Sciences (Minor: Biotechnology and Bioinformatics) (2011–2014) from Jawaharlal Nehru University (India) with Dr. Anirban Pal (Chief Scientist, CSIR-CIMAP). This was followed by postdoctoral stints at the Institute of Chemistry of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) (2015-2017) as a CAPES Fellow with Profs. Carlos Roland Kaiser and Sabrina Baptista Ferreira, as well as at the Department of Pharmacy of the University of São Paulo (Brazil) (2017–2021) as an FAPESP Research Fellow with Prof. Elizabeth Igne Ferreira. Since Jan 2022, he has been a part-time Research Scientist in Prof. Fabrice Fekam Boyom's research group at the Antimicrobial Agents Unit, Laboratory for Phytobiochemistry and Medicinal Plants Studies (University of Yaounde 1) and a Lecturer (part-time) at the Department of Basic and Applied Fundamental Sciences, Higher Institute of Agriculture, Forestry, Water and Environment (HIAFWE), University of Ebolowa (Cameroon). His recent research activities include the chemical investigation of medicinal plants, analytical and bioanalytical method validation, and toxicological and pharmacological studies. More recently, he has been involved in the synthesis and semisynthetic modification of natural products, as well as the fabricated of nanomaterials and their implication in the treatment of bacterial, fungal, and neglected parasitic diseases. He has published numerous articles in revered journals.
University of Yaounde I, Yaounde, Cameroon
Yaoundé, Centre, Cameroon
Department of Biochemistry
University of Ebolowa
Ébolowa, Sud, Cameroon