Dr. B. Onyegeme-Okerenta – Nigerian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

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Dr. B. Onyegeme-Okerenta

South-South Coordinator

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Personal Profile: Dr Blessing Minaopunye Onyegeme-Okerenta is a Nigerian who hails from Bonny Island in the Niger Delta Region. She has a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the prestigious University of Lagos, Nigeria. Currently, she is an Associate Professor and the Associate Dean of the Faculty of Science, University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria. Her research focuses on Medical Biochemistry and Environmental Toxicology. Her primary areas of interest include the evaluation of phytomolecules present in medicinal plants for anticancer, antidiabetic, hypolipidemic, antisickling, antiplasmodial, and anti-inflammatory properties; the analysis of plant and fungi extracts for antiprotease and antimicrobial properties; and the intention to produce natural and cost-effective therapeutic agents. Her other interests include the biotransformation of environmental agro-wastes into viable products such as enzymes, simple sugars, bioethanol, and animal feed formulation; the production of microbial biosurfactants for degradation and remediation of hydrocarbon pollutants; and environmental and molecular toxicology. Her current projects range from chloramphenicol-induced lymphoma and testosterone-based drug-induced prostatitis and the ameliorative potentials of some medicinal plants in animal models to the health risk assessment of animal models fed with vegetables and seafood from hydrocarbon-polluted locations.

She is also a Commonwealth Academic Fellow of the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom, and belongs to some professional bodies both locally and internationally. She has over seventy peer-reviewed publications in different fields of Biochemistry in local and international journals.

Area of Specialty: Medical Biochemistry/Environmental Toxicology

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