December 2023
Mayeso Naomi Victoria Gwedela > Other Awards
Grant for Parkinson`s disease awareness in Malawi during the 2024 Brain Awareness Week.
November 2023
Mayeso Naomi Victoria Gwedela > Other Awards
Travel grant to attend the Wellcome Connecting Science`s Molecular Neurodegeneration and Therapeutic Approaches Course 2024 (Cambridge, UK)
November 2023
Mayeso Naomi Victoria Gwedela > Other Awards
A 50 % registration bursary by the Wellcome Connecting Science to attend their Molecular Neurodegeneration and Therapeutic Approaches Course 2024 (Cambridge, UK)
November 2022
Mayeso Naomi Victoria Gwedela > Other Awards
2nd best student presenter at the IBRO-ARC school on Parkinson`s disease: providing clarity for continuous teaching and research from an African perspective (Nairobi, Kenya)
April 2017
Mayeso Naomi Victoria Gwedela > Other Awards
5-year full scholarship to study at Hiroshima University`s Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences
April 2025
Mayeso Naomi Victoria Gwedela > Other Awards
An education outreach grant to hold a movement disorders workshop (4-5 September 2025) for non-neurologist healthcare professionals at Kamuzu University of Health Sciences in Blantyre, Malawi.
Full Member
Dr. Mayeso Gwedela
Membership since:
2025
Field of activity:
Awards
About me
Mayeso Gwedela is a lecturer in human physiology at Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, with research interests in epilepsy and neurodegenerative disorders, particularly Parkinson`s disease.
Other Memberships/Affiliations
International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society
Society of Neuroscientists of Africa (SONA)
International Association of Parkinsonism and Related Disorders
The ALBA Network
International Society for Neurochemistry
Degrees:
2022
Doctorate
Medical and Health Sciences incl Neurosciences
Publications resulting from Research
Gwedela M.N.V., Gadama Y, Phiri T.E. 2025. Parkinson’s disease in Malawi: A cross-sectional Study of clinical profiles and risk factors. Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2025.08.018
Gwedela, M.N.V., Jana, C. E., Mwambyale, T., Chikowe, I., Chimphepo, L., Chirambo, G. 2024. In vivo and in vitro assays, and safety profiles of cannabinoids. In Cannabis and Khat in Drug Discovery (pp. 153–184). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-95927-8.00009-8
Gwedela, M.N.V., Terai, H., Lampiao, F., Matsunami, K., Aizawa, H. 2022. Anti-seizure effects of medicinal plants in Malawi on pentylenetetrazole-induced seizures in zebrafish larvae. J. Ethnopharmacol. 284, 114763. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jep.2021.114763
Terai, H., Gwedela, M.N.V., Kawakami, K., Aizawa, H. 2021. Electrophysiological and pharmacological characterization of spreading depolarization in the adult zebrafish tectum. J. Neurophysiol. 126, 1934–1942. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00343.2021