John O IgoliJohn O. Igoli is a professor of organic chemistry. He obtained a PhD in organic chemistry specializing in natural products from the University of Nigeria Nsukka and had a six year postdoctoral training at the Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Bioedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde Glasgow. He currently works at the Department of Chemistry, University of Agriculture, Makurdi Nigeria. His expertise is in the area of Phytochemistry, Ethnobotany and Natural products. Isolation and structural characterization of compounds from plants and other sources using chromatographic and spectroscopic methods and bioactivity studies against NTDs. He has over 150 publications centred on ethnobotanical studies, pharmacology, Phytochemistry and structure elucidation of novel bioactive compounds especially those with antikinetoplastid activities. He is avidly involved in training young scientists on the spectroscopic identification of compounds and the evaluation of plants used in traditional medicine. He is passionate about teaching and research collaboration. He has facilitated several structure elucidation, grant writing and research workshops. He is currently editing a special edition of Frontiers in pharmacology focused on drug discovery for neglected tropical diseases. Read More Read Less