4^th African Pharma Congress

Biography

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.

Research Interest

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).