Mary Anti Chama
University of Ghana, Ghana
Biography
Mary Chama has her research interest in the area of Medicinal plant Natural Product where she and her team are involved in isolation, characterization, and biological testing of active compounds from medicinal plants. Biological testing for anticancer, tropical infectious disease such as anti-hookworm, antischistosomiasis, antitrypanosomiasis and antimalarial has been her recent focus. She has worked on Scoparia dulcis, plants from some Dichapetalum species and currently researching on species from the Fabaceae and Annonaceae families. Her research also involves the application of in silico studies towards understanding the mode of action of therapeutic medicinal plants and active isolates which she acquired on her Post-doctoral fellowship at the Chemistry department of the University of Cambridge in UK.
Abstract
Abstract : Antibacteria, antiparasitic and in silico studies of dichapetalum madagascariense Poire