Fidele NTIE-KANG (PhD, MRSC)
Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences,
Head of the University of Buea Center for Drug Discovery (UB-CeDD)
Faculty of Science, University of Buea
Fidele Ntie-Kang is an Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry, University of Buea in Cameroon, where he also founded and heads the Centre for Drug Discovery.
He completed a PhD in computer-aided drug design at the University of Douala in Cameroon and then moved to Germany with a Georg Forster postdoctoral fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. There, he carried out postdoctoral research under the guidance of Prof. Wolfgang Sippl, which led to a habilitation in pharmaceutical chemistry.
He focuses on chemoinformatics for natural products research and is passionate about drug discovery from natural products identified from African medicinal plants. His major contribution is the development of the African Natural Products Database (currently containing >11,000 compounds and >1,700 species from all regions of the continent).
He is also the solo editor of a book series on “Chemoinformatics of Natural Products”. He holds several awards, including the Calestous Juma Science Leadership award from the Gates Foundation and the 2025 Royal Society of Chemistry Natural Product Reports Emerging Investigator Lectureship. He is a founding member of the Cameroon Academy of Young Scientists (CAYS), a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the German Chemical Society, the American Chemical Society, and a member of the Organizational Leadership Team of the Grand Challenges African Drug Discovery Accelerator consortium funded by the Gates Foundation and LifeArc.
He has previously held several positions, including as a DAAD guest professor at the Technical University of Dresden and at the University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Gorlitz (Germany) and an adjunct professor at Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, Arsha (Tanzania). He has over 130 publications and about 4,700 Google Scholar citations (with an H-index of 39).
He holds several journal editorial board positions and is a very sought-after conference speaker
