Dr. Fidele Ntie-Kang is an Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry, University of Buea in Cameroon, where he heads the Center for Drug Discovery. After studying chemistry and physics at the University of Douala in Cameroon, he completed a PhD in computer-aided drug design. He then moved to Germany for postdoctoral research under Prof. Wolfgang Sippl, leading to a habilitation in pharmaceutical chemistry. Since then, his research has been focused on chemoinformatics for natural products research. He holds several editorial board appointments and his major contribution is the development of the African Natural Products Database.

Roland N. NDIP is a Professor of Microbiology and current Dean of the Faculty of Science, University of Buea, Cameroon. Professor NDIP studied at premier institutions in Nigeria (BSc, MSc, PhD in Medical Microbiology) with specializations in pathogenic and molecular microbiology. He extended his training through participation in short courses and laboratory visits abroad at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, and the German Research Centre for Biotechnology, Braunschweig, Germany. Professor NDIP has a long standing interest and active research programme in infectious disease, and in the utility of both western and traditional (herbal) medicines for the treatment of infectious diseases.

Chantal EMADE NKWELLE holds a master’s degree in microbiology from the University of Buea, Cameroon. She is currently a PhD student in the same programme and University. She has gone through a 1year class work and a comprehensive examination at the end of the semester (2021-2022). Thereafter, she obtained an HIV drug discovery training at the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, Philadelphia, USA, in preparation for her PhD. research work. Chantal is currently in the research phase of her PhD. programme.