Epole Ngolle Ntungwe

Dr. Epole Ngolle Ntungwe

Research Center for Biosciences & Health Technologies, Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias Lisbon Portugal
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Biography

Epole Ntungwe is a assistant professor at the Institut Químic de Sarria (IQS), Universitat Ramon Llull, Barcelona, Spain. Epole joined IQS after completing her PhD at Universidade Lusófona, Portugal in partnership with the University of Alcalá de Henares Spain and Postdoc at the University of Coimbra Portugal. Her research is focused on the search for lead molecules from natural sources (plants) to combat multi-drug resistance in cancer, antimicrobial drug resistance and those with antioxidant activity. Epole has since contributed enormously to scientific knowledge on the use of Natural Products in drug discovery. In the past few years, Epole Ntungwe has authored/Co-authored international journal articles with 16 oral communications and 58 poster presentations in national and international conferences. Her experiences span through the pharma industry to academia, supervising and passionate about knowledge transfer activities.

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Honors and Awards

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Egon-Stahl-Award in Bronze

ociety for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research (GA)

The prestigious Egon Stahl-Award 2020 with Bronze Medal is bestowed to Dr. Epole Ntungwe from Universidade Lusófona, Lisboa, Portugal. With her impressive PhD thesis dedicated to research on natural product drug discovery, Dr Epole Ntungwe focussed on the search for novel lead structures from Plectranthus species to combat multi-drug resistance in cancer. She convinced the jury with her high level contributions on the use of natural products to fight MDR in cancer.

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