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Xavier Siwe-Noundou Editor

Dr. Xavier Siwe-Noundou is a scholar and scientist based at Rhodes University in

Grahamstown / Makhanda, South Africa. He has been a Gordon and Betty Moore

Foundation (GBMF) Fellow (2017-2019), Oregon State University in USA (2017),

University of California San Diego in USA (2019); an EU FP7 Marie Curie Fellow

(2015–2016), Kaposvar University in Hungary (2015, 2016), Trakia Univesity in

Bulgaria (2016), TWAS Fellow (2013), National Research Foundation South Africa

Fellow (2014-2016).

Dr. Siwe-Noundou works on medicinal chemistry focusing on chemistry, pharmacognosy,

and nanotechnology. His main investigations include terrestrial natural

products chemistry (from Cameroon and South Africa) and marine natural products

chemistry (from South Africa cost line). All the bioactive metabolites isolated are

screened as potential antimicrobial, antiparasitic and antiproliferative candidates. He

is an author of more than fifty scientific publications in his field of expertise.