Prof. Leonida Kerubo

INITIATED PARTNERSHIPS

• A Cooperative Research and Development Agreement between the University of Nairobi P.O. Box 301, 00100-GPO Nairobi, Kenya (Cooperator) and Walter Reed Army Institute of Research 503, Robert Grant Avenue Silver Spring, MD 20910-7500 (Laboratory.) “Antimalarial screening of Kenyan ethnomedicinal plants”.
• MOU between Department of Chemistry, University of Nairobi, Kenya and Department of Pharmaceutical Biology, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany. Exploring the Potential of Compounds from Kenyan traditional plants against Cancer.

MAJOR INFRASTRUCTURE ACCOMPLISHMENT

• SEK 800,000- 400 MHz NMR Machine-Collaborative research in drug discovery from Kenya Flora with special emphasis on infectious diseases and anticancer agents.
• SEK 460,000- HPLC Machine-Collaborative research in drug discovery from Kenya Flora with special emphasis on infectious diseases and anticancer agents.