KC’s Selected Representative Invited/Keynote/Plenary Lectures:

• Acetolactate Synthase Inhibitors as Novel Anti-tuberculosis Agents. Plenary lecture at the Gordon Conference on Tuberculosis (TB) Drug Development, 31 Aug -5 Sept 2003, Queens’ College, University of Oxford, UK.
• Synthetic Studies Towards Chemical Libraries of New Antimalarial Natural Product Derivatives. Invited lecture at the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry International Conference on Biodiversity and Natural Products: Chemistry and Medical Applications, 26-31 Jan 2004, New Delhi (India).
• Antiparasitic Drug Discovery Using Natural Product-Derived Scaffolds and Multi-Component Reactions. Plenary lecture at the 11th Natural Products Research for East & Central Africa (NAPRECA) Symposium on Natural Products and Drug Discovery, 9-12 August 2005, Antananarivo, Madagascar.
• A Pharmacophore for the Rational Design of Chemosensitizers Against Drug Resistant Malaria Parasites. Invited lecture at the American Chemical Society(ACS)-Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, CSIR, (India) conference on Advances in Organic Chemistry and Chemical Biology (AOCCB), 11-12 Jan 2006, Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT), Hyderabad, India.
• Privileged Structures and Multi-Component Reaction Strategies in Antiprotozoal Drug Discovery. Invited lecture at the Keystone Symposia, Drugs Against Protozoan Parasites, 28 Jan-1 February 2007, Lake Tahoe, Tahoe City, California, USA.
• Medicinal Chemistry in Parasitology Using Promiscuos Chemical Scaffolds. Invited lecture at the European Union COST B22 (Drug Development for Parasitic Diseases) "Medicinal Chemistry in Parasitology: new avenues in drug discovery" meeting, 19-20th February 2007, Modena, Italy.
• Economic Drug Discovery and Rational Medicinal Chemistry for Tropical Diseases. Invited lecture at the European Union COST B22 Action meeting on Chemotherapy of Tropical Diseases, 10-13th June 2007, Dundee, Scotland, UK.
• Experiences in Establishing an African Natural Products Network. Invited lecture at the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDi) and the Malaysian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Natural Substances Drug Discovery and Development meeting, 29 November-01 December 2007, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. .
• Unique Models for Collaborative Drug Discovery Networks and Partnerships in Africa. Invited lecture at the Keystone Symposia, Translating New Technologies to Improve Public Health in Africa, 15-20 May 2008, Speke Resort & Conference Centre, Kampala, Uganda.
• Challenges in Discovering and Developing Drugs Against Malaria. Invited Lecture at the International Centre for Science-United Nations Industrial Development Organization (ICS-UNIDO) Seminar Series, Trieste, Italy, 12 March 2009.
• Chemical Approaches to the Reversal of Chloroquine Resistance in the Malaria Parasite Plasmodium falciparum. Invited Keynote Lecture at the 7th Asian International Medicinal Chemistry (AIMECS09) Congress, Cairns, Australia, 23-27 August 2009.
• Challenges in Discovering and Developing Drugs Against Malaria in Africa by Africans. Invited Lecture at the Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (MIM) Conference, Nairobi, Kenya, 2-6 November 2009.
• Drug Discovery in Africa. Invited Lecture at the ANDI/EU/WHO/TDR Symposium, Nairobi, Kenya, 6 November 2009.