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

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Hit to Lead and Lead Optimization of Antimalarial and Antituberculosis Whole Cell Hits from a SoftFocus Library. Invited Lecture at the American Chemical Society (ACS)  symposium entitled "Challenges in Phenotypic Whole Cell High throughput Screening and Medicinal Chemistry Optimization of Hits; Strategies to Discover Novel Antiparasitic and Antimycobacterial Agents", 243rd ACS National Meeting 25-29 March 2012, San Diego, California, USA.
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Integration of ADME in Medicinal Chemistry Progression of Antiplasmodial Hits.  Invited  lecture at the 1st international conference on “ Global Challenges for New Drug Discovery Against Tropical Parasitic Diseases” ,  Cancun, Mexico, 11-15 December 2011.

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Technology Platforms to Facilitate Drug Discovery from African Biodiversity and Safety Evaluation of African Traditional Medicines.  Plenary lecture at the 14th Natural Products Research for East & Central Africa (NAPRECA) Symposium on Natural Products from African Biodiversity, 8-12 August 2011, ICIPE, Kenya.

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Invited Speaker in session: "How Do You Solve a Problem Like Malaria?: Using Smart Science to Defeat an Age-Old Disease", 7th World Conference of Science Journalists (WCSJ2011), Doha, Qatar, 27-29 June 2011. Presented talk entitled: "Identifying next-generation antimalarials from thousands of new hits in the public domain"
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Mining African Biodiversity to Provide Advances in Drug Discovery & Development via Low Cost Medicinal Chemistry. Invited Lecture at the Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute Symposium HumanAfrican Trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness) – Towards new chemotherapeutic tools
Basel, Switzerland, 9-10 December 2010.

• Integrating African Natural Products into Modern Paradigms of Drug Discovery: From Challenges to Opportunities. Invited Lecture at the International Conference on Pure and Applied Chemistry, Mauritius, 26-30 July 2010.
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Discovering Drugs in Africa by Africans: Challenges and Opportunities. Invited Lecture in the Symposium "Global Roundup of Pharmaceutical Research Capabilities and Opportunities" at the 2nd International Conference on Drug Discovery and Therapy, Dubai, UAE, 1-4 February 2010. Representative for Africa (Representatives from each of six continents/regions were invited).
• Drug Discovery in Africa. Invited Lecture at the ANDI/EU/WHO/TDR Symposium, Nairobi, Kenya, 6 November 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.
• 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. Invited Lecture at the International Centre for Science-United Nations Industrial Development Organization (ICS-UNIDO) Seminar Series, Trieste, Italy, 12 March 2009.
• 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 (under session of Challenges of Enhancing Biomedical Infrastructure in Africa), 15-20 May 2008, Speke Resort & Conference Centre, Kampala, Uganda.
• 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
• 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.
• Medicinal Chemistry in Parasitology Using Promiscuous 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.
• 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.
• A Pharmacophore for the Rational Design of Chemosensitizers Against Drug Resistant Malaria Parasites.  Invited lecture at the American Chemical Society-Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (India) conference on Advances in Organic Chemistry and Chemical Biology (AOCCB), 11-12 Jan 2006, Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT), Hyderabad, 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.
• 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).
• 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. Under session “Finding the Lead Compound”.