2023:

November: Kick-off of the African-derived Natural Products Box (AdNPB) project in collaboration with Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV).

October: Dr. Ntie-Kang attends the Grand Challenges Annual Meeting in Dakar, Senegal.

September: UB-CeDD hosts an international hybrid drug discovery workshop on the theme “Artificial Intelligence, Computational and Medicinal Chemistry-based Approaches for Antiviral Drug Discovery”.

September: UB-CeDD to host in-house staff training the Biomedical Technician Training (BTT) course offered by the Wistar Institute (USA) and a hands-on training on the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) for drug discovery offered by Ersilia Open Science Initiative (UK).

June: Dr. Maloba M. M. Lobe is awarded the African Postdoctoral Training Initiative (APTI) fellowship by the African Academy of Sciences (AAS) at the Fogarty International Center at NIH (USA), funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

May: Dr. Fidele Ntie-Kang is attending a meeting with other Calestous Juma Science Leadership Fellowship awardees at the Headquarters of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle (USA).

April: Dr. Boris Davy Bekono is recruited at the University of Yaoundé I as an Assistant Lecturer.

March: Dr. Fidele Ntie-Kang is attending a leadership workshop organized by the African Leadership Institute at Mont Fleur, Stellenbosch (South Africa), along with other Calestous Juma fellows.

March: Dr. Smith B. Babiaka wins the best poster award during the American Chemical Society (ACS) Symposium in Bonn (Germany).

February: Dr. Fidele Ntie-Kang is attending the Grand Challenges Africa Drug Discovery Cohorts meeting in Nairobi, Kenya.

January: UB-CeDD website is now available at https://www.ub-cedd.org  (URL: http://ubcedd.website3.me).

January: Alexander von Humboldt Research Group Linkage Project with Martin-Luther University takes off (55,000 EUR).

2022:

December: The application for the creation of UB-CeDD is endorsed by the Council of the University of Buea.

December: Dr. Maloba M. M. Lobe was recruited Assistant Lecturer at the Department of Chemistry, University of Buea.

September: Dr. Fidele Ntie-Kang is an invited speaker and receives an award from Afe-Babalola University Ado-Ekiti (Nigeria), during the Drug Discovery Africa 2022 conference, for his contributions towards drug discovery in Africa.

September: Dr. Conrad V. Simoben and Mr. Cyril T. Namba-Nzanguim receive travel grants to present their results during the Drug Discovery Africa 2022 conference in Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria.

August: Ms. Chantal Emade Nkwelle, Dr. Donatus B. Eni and Dr. Fidele Ntie-Kang are appointed as J1 Guest Scholars at the Wistar Institute, Philadelphia (USA).

July: Working visit of Dr. Miquel Duran-Frigola and Dr. Gemma Turon from Ersilia Open Science Initiative, Cambridge (UK) to plan scientific events for the collaboration involved in the NiDNA project.

May: Dr. Conrad V. Simoben is selected to participate in the conference with Nobel Laureats at Lindau, Germany.

April: Working visit of Dr. Ian Tietjen from the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, Philadelphia (USA) to plan scientific events for the collaboration involved in the NiDNA project.

March: Construction work begins at the site allocated to UB-CeDD. Dr. Ntie-Kang is co-organizer of the online workshop “Computational Applications in Secondary Metabolite Discovery (CaiSMD)”

2021: 

October: Dr. Smith B. Babiaka is awarded the Georg Forster Postdoctoral Research Fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in addition to a 10,000 EUR grant by the Bayer Foundation to pursue his research on marine natural products from species harvested off the coast of Limbe, South West Region, Cameroon.

Ooctober: Dr. Fidele Ntie-Kang is awarded the Calestous Juma Science Leadership Fellowship (1 Million US Dollars) by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.