Dr. Godwin Anywar
Biography
A researcher, academician, entrepreneur and author. Godwin completed his doctorate from the prestigious Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology in Leipzig, Germany, the Institute for Virology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Leipzig and Makerere University, Kampala on a split site model, where he investigated the anti-HIV-1, immunomodulatory activity and cytotoxicity of medicinal plants used by herbalists for treating people living with HIV/AIDS in Uganda. He currently lectures at the Department of Plant Sciences, Microbiology and Biotechnology at Makerere University. His research interests are in the field of natural product development, pharmacognosy, ethnobotany and ethnopharmacology. He is passionate about research and has authored over 50 publications in international peer reviewed journals. Godwin is a member of several professional bodies such as the Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research, the International Society for Ethnopharmacology, American Society of Pharmacognosy and the International Society of Ethnopharmacology among others. He currently serves as the vice president of the Uganda Textbook Academic and Non-Fiction Writers Association (UTANA) and is a reviews editor, for the journal frontiers in Pharmacology – Ethnopharmacology. He also reviews for several international peer reviewed journals