Dr. John Anyam is a medicinal chemist and natural products researcher with a PhD in Organic Chemistry from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, and postdoctoral training at the Wellcome Centre for Anti-Infectives Research, University of Dundee, Scotland. He has been a former Director of the Centre for African Medicinal Plants Research (Campre) and leads research focused on the isolation, structural elucidation, and therapeutic evaluation of bioactive compounds from African flora. His work emphasizes antiparasitic drug discovery, NMR spectroscopy, and the industrial valorization of indigenous medicinal plants.