Kazhila Croffat Chinsembu
Associate Professor
Biological Sciences
University of Namibia
Namibia
Biography
Kazhila Croffat Chinsembui s currently working as Associate Professor in the department of Biological Sciences at University of Namibia. Prof. Chinsembu is a molecular biologist/microbiologist who works and writes on medicinal plants. He is a recipient of the University of Namibia 2012 meritorious award. Author of the 2016 book Green Medicines: Pharmacy of Natural Products for HIV and Five AIDS-related Infections, Chinsembu’s funded research projects include: Capacity building in the use of indigenous knowledge of medicinal plants: research, innovation and herbal drug prototypes; toxic plants as potential anti-cancer agents; evaluation of ethnoveterinary medicinal plants of Namibia; screening of indigenous Namibian mushrooms for their antimalarial activities against sensitive and resistant strains of the malaria parasites; and HIV-1 biological activity and toxicity prospecting of ethnobotanicals of Namibia.
Research Interest
Anti-HIV plants Ethnoveterinary medicinal plants Environmental microbiology
