Congratulations to Professor Fidele Ntie-Kang, recipient of the 2025 Natural Product Reports Emerging Investigator Lectureship!
The annual Natural Product Reports Emerging Investigator Lectureship recognises a researcher who has made a significant contribution to a natural products-related area of the chemical sciences in their early independent career. The Natural Product Reports Editorial Board have selected Professor Ntie-Kang from the University of Buea as the winner this year.
More about Fidele
Fidele is an Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry, University of Buea in Cameroon where he also heads the Centre for Drug Discovery. After studying chemistry and physics at the University of Douala in Cameroon, he completed a PhD in computer-aided drug design. After serving briefly as a Senior Instructor at the University of Buea, he moved to Germany where he carried out postdoctoral research under Prof. Wolfgang Sippl with funding from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. His teaching and research in Germany led to a habilitation in pharmaceutical chemistry. Since then, his research has been focused on chemoinformatics for natural products research, a topic in which he is an editor of a book series.
He holds several editorial board appointments and is passionate about drug discovery from natural products identified from African medicinal plants. He has previously served as an Adjunct Professor at Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, Arusha (Tanzania), and as a Guest Professor at the Technical University of Dresden (Germany). With Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funding, he has set up a drug discovery center in Cameroon, the only one in the entire central African region. His major contribution is the development of the African Natural Products Database. He was recently named by Stanford University and Elsevier amongst the top 2% of scientists in the world and classified by AD Scientific as a top-profiled scientist based in Sub-Saharan Africa.
You can find out more about Fidele and the work his lab is doing on his webpage or watch this video. Fidele will be presenting his Lectureship at the Drug Discovery Africa 2025 conference in March, so if you are attending the conference do make sure to come along to his talk.
