4^th African Pharma Congress June 20-21, 2016 Cape Town, South Africa

Douglas William Oliver is Professor based in School of Pharmacy at the North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, Potchefstroom, South Africa. He is a South African born citizen, 29 March 1954 (passport number M00101252, expiry 22nd November 2023). He is a pharmacist by training and has work in more than 50 pharmacies in South Africa and Namibia during his 35 years as a pharmacist registered with the South African Pharmacy Council.

He research has been in drug discovery research in the areas of neurodegenerated disorders and virology, including anti-HIV compounds and applies small molecule and protein computer aided molecular modelling techniques frequently. He has been involved in the synthesis of numerous novel structures of the saturated polycyclic “cage” and guanidine structure types. He subsequently designed promising activities anti-HIV hydroxy-aminoguandidines, that additionally proofed to be unique with respect to in vivo cardio protection of ischaemia reperfusion injury. He established pharmacological research in the field of ozone at the North-West University, which included trans disciplinary collaboration will other Unit for Space Physic, Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmacy at the University of Western Cape. His research team developed in the 1990s an in vivo non-human primate model to investigate cerebral perfusion and conducted aproximately approximately a thousand drug interventions studies in the cape baboon (Papio ursinus).

Professor Gert Kruger is a senior lecturer and researcher in Organic Chemistry at the Peptide and Catalysis Research Unit at the Westville Campus, UKZN. His research interests include Health Sciences, Organic Chemistry, and Pharmaceutical Chemistry. Kruger’s research specialties include chiral synthesis; peptide synthesis; cage compounds; NMR of cage compounds; TB-cage drugs; and cage anti HIV-PR inhibitors.

Cage chemistry, Peptide synthesis, Anti-HIV inhibitors, Chiral synthesis, NMR, Pharmaceutical chemical applications

Pharmaceutical industry

Pharmaceutical Equipment and Instrumentation

Dr. Bahareh Honarparvar received her Ph.D. degree in Physical Chemistry (Computational Chemistry) from Iran in 2010. Her Ph.D thesis was about the application of ab initio electronic structure calculations for drug-like compounds. From 2002 up to 2006, she was manager of industrial projects in Ministry of oil as well as Polymer and petrochemical research Centre in Tehran-Iran. In 2007, she was employed as a project manager and educational research member in Institution for Curriculum Development & Educational Innovations, Tehran, Iran till April 2010. After getting her PhD, she started her research on computational HIV drug design as a computational postdoctoral fellow at KwaZulu-Natal University in Durban, South Africa from July 2010 up to June 2013. She is currently appointed as a lecturer in the school of Health Sciences (Pharmaceutical Sciences). Her research interest is mainly on applying computational medicinal chemistry approaches (Molecular Dynamic simulation, molecular docking, binding free energy calculation) to investigate enzyme-inhibitor interactions for synthesizing novel drugs related to different diseases.

Integrated approach to structure-based enzymatic drug design: molecular modeling, spectroscopy, and experimental bioactivity.

Sahar I. Mostafa, Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt. Prof. Sahar Mostafa, was born in Mansoura, Egypt and graduated at Mansoura University with excellent with honor. She is a Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Mansoura University, Egypt since 2008, Visiting Professor at Chemistry Department, McGill University, Montreal, Canada since 2009.

Pharmaceutical chemistry

Sunitha Srinivas graduated with a Bachelor of Pharmacy in 1992 and began her career as a lecturer in India. After completing her Masters degree in Pharmacy, she returned to academics. She then accepted the position of Deputy Director, Drug Information Center in Karnataka State Pharmacy Council which soon led her to opportunities in the area of public health. After being trained at an intensive World Health Organisation international courses, she was nominated as the Technical Coordinator by the Delhi Society for Promotion of Rational Use of Drugs, to initiate and manage the provincial India- WHO Essential Medicines Program, Karnataka from 2000-2003. While managing the WHO program, she underwent further training in various international courses in relevant areas of rational use of medicines. As the first global recipient of the scholarship from the Pharmabridge program- an International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) sub-group initiative- she was trained by the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Pharmacy department, Madison and St. Louis College of Pharmacy, Missouri, United States of America. She also worked briefly as a consultant on a World Bank project in Karnataka Health Systems Development Project in conducting the medicine indicator use study in the public sector hospitals in Karnataka .

Health promotion: Social change, communication amongst chronic patients: Operational research in pharmaceutical management.

Professor Rod Walker is Head and Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy at Rhodes University in South Africa. He completed his BPharm (1983) and PhD (1995) degrees at Rhodes University. He was the National Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences Distinguished Teacher of the year in Pharmacy (2000). He is rated by the National Research Foundation (C2) and is an appointed member of the Medicines Control Council in South Africa. He serves in the editorial board of a number of peer-reviewed journals and has successfully supervised 18 MSc and PhD and published and presented approximately 200 research outputs.

The development of immediate, controlled or extended release formulations of suitable drug candidates for adult and/or pediatric use.