Location: CDT- Africa, Sefere Selam, CHS, AAU, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia  

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Profile: Dr. Fozia Ali is a post doc researcher at Centre for Innovative Drug Development and Therapeutic Trials for Africa (CDT-Africa) in the area of drug discovery for Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs). She was a visiting scientist at International Center for Chemical and Biological Science (ICCBS) (Pakistan), Johannes Gothenburg University (Germany), Potsdam University (Germany), Gothenburg University (Sweden) and Saarland University (Germany).

Areas of Expertise: Dr. Fozia is an Organic and Natural Product Chemist working on NTDs drug discovery research. She has background in isolation, structural elucidation, and structural derivatization of bioactive natural compounds.

Academic Background: Dr. Fozia has BSc in Chemistry from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia; MSc and PhD in Organic and Natural Product Chemistry from the University of Nairobi, Kenya under German Academic Exchange Services (DAAD) scholarship.

Current Position: Dr. Fozia Ali is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at CDT-Africa, Addis Ababa University and Brighton & Sussex Medical School (BSMS). 

Publications: Dr. Fozia’s publications list can be found here:

1. Fozia A. Adem, Victor Kuete, Armelle T. Mbaveng, Matthias Heydenreich,Andreas Koch, Albert Ndakala, Beatrice Irungu, Abiy Yenesew & ThomasEfferth. Cytotoxic flavonoids from two Lonchocarpus species. Natural Product Research.1-9. (https://doi.org/10.1080/14786419.2018.1462179)

2. Fozia A. Adem, Victor Kuete, Armelle T. Mbaveng,  Matthias Heydenreich, Albert Ndakala, Beatrice Irungue, Thomas Efferth⁎, Abiy Yenesewa⁎. Cytotoxic benzylbenzofuran derivatives from Dorstenia kameruniana2018.. Fitoterapia .128, 26-30. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fitote.2018.04.019)

3. Fozia A. Adem, Armelle T. Mbaveng, Victor Kuete, Matthias Heydenreich, Albert Ndakala, Beatrice Irungue, Abiy Yenesewa⁎, Thomas Efferth⁎. Cytotoxicity of isoflavones and biflavonoids from Ormocarpum kirkii towards multi-factorial drug resistant cancer. 2019. Phytomedicine. 58, 52853. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.phymed.2019.152853)

4. Carolyne Chepkirui, Fozia Ali Adem, Anastasia Rudenko,Yukino Gütlin, Albert Ndakala,  Solomon Derese, Andreas Orthaber, Catarina Bourgard, Abiy Yenesew* and Máté Erdélyi*. Benzo[b]naphtho[2,1-d]furans and 2-Phenylnaphthalenes from Streblus usambarensis. J. Nat. Prod. 2023, 86, 4, 1010–1018 . (https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jnatprod.3c00051)