Lydia Bunalema
About me
Dr. Bunalema Lydia is a Pharmacologist with a research interest in Drug discovery, Phytochemistry and Toxicology Research.
With over ten years’ practice at academic institutions of higher learning, Lydia has initiated and participated in several research studies that have provided lead compounds in infectious diseases like TB. Currently Lydia is working on a project investigating an antimalarial potential of medicinal plants in Uganda with a hope of developing a herbal product.
As a leader, she is one of the founders of Uganda Pharmacological society and she is currently an executive member on the same. She is a member of the school of biomedical Science research ethical committee where she has served for over ten years. Lydia is also a mentor to young and upcoming scientists and she has supervised over ten students at both under and post graduate levels.
Other Memberships/Affiliations
Degrees:
Obakiro, Samuel Baker; Kiprop, Ambrose; Kigondu, Elizabeth; K’Owino, Isaac; Odero, Mark Peter; Manyim, Scolastica; Omara, Timothy; Namukobe, Jane; Owor, Richard Oriko; Gavamukulya, Yahaya; Bunalema, Lydia. (2021). Traditional medicinal uses, phytoconstituents, bioactivities, and toxicities of erythrina abyssinica lam. ex DC. (Fabaceae ): Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/5513484
Samuel Obakiro, Ambrose Kiprop, Isaac Kowino, Elizabeth Kigondu, Mark Peter Odero, Timothy Omara and Lydia Bunalema (2020). Ethnobotany, ethnopharmacology and phytochemistry of traditional medicinal plants used in the management of symptoms of tuberculosis in East Africa: a systematic review. BMC Tropical Medicine and Health 48:68
Obakiro Samuel, Lydia Bunalema, Ndukui G James, Nyatia E and Paul Waako (2018) Ulcerogenic Potential of Eucalyptus globulus L. Leaf Extract in Wistar Albino Rats. Journal of Pharmacology and Toxicology ISSN 1816-496X.
Lydia Bunalema, Ghislain Wabo Fotso, Paul Waako, John Tabuti and Samuel O. Yeboah (2017). Potential of Zanthoxylum leprieurii as a source of active compounds against drug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis. BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 17:89
Lydia Bunalema, John Tabuti, Yahaya Sekagya, Sam Ogwang, Paul Waako (2015). Anti-tubercular activity of Callistemon citrinus and Piptadenistrum africanum on resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis using Microplate alamar blue assay. Spatula DD 5, 235-240
Lydia Bunalema, Samuel Obakiro, Paul Waako and Tabuti JRS (2014). Knowledge on plants used traditionally in the treatment of tuberculosis in Uganda. Journal of Ethnopharmacology 151, 999-1004
Claude Kirimuhuzya, Lydia Bunalema, Paul Waako, Tabuti JRS, Orodho John, Magadula Jangu Joseph, Otieno Nicholas and Okemo Paul (2012). Efficacy of Cryptolepis sanguinolenta root extract on slow-growing rifampicin resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Medicinal Plant Research. Vol. 6(7), pp. 1140-1146
Lydia Bunalema, Kirimuhuzya Claude, Waako Paul, Tabuti JRS, Orodho John, Magadula Jangu Joseph, Otieno Nicholas and Okemo Paul (2011). The efficacy of crude root bark extracts of Erythrina abyssinica on rifampicin resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis. African Health Sciences Journal 11(4): 587 – 593
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