Biographical Info:

Prof. Franklin Chimaobi Kenechukwu (a Nigerian, born in 1981) received his Ph.D in Pharmaceutics in 2017, from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), where he serves currently as the Head of the Department and Research Leader. He has served as the Managing Editor of African Journal of Pharmaceutical Research and Development, a Faculty-based journal. He has co-authored more than 150 scientific articles/reviews and book-chapters, and has delivered more than 40 presentations at conferences/workshops/symposia/summits worldwide. His research on transdermal artemether nanogels was recently patented in Australia.
Kenechukwu has received several fellowships/awards/grants/bursaries/scholarships, including the International Foundation for Science (IFS) (Sweden, 2021); MAM-2020 Travel Award (Australia, 2020), AGNES Junior Researcher Grant (Germany, 2019), WCAIR Travel Award (UK, 2019), INCT-FCx Travel Bursary (Brazil, 2019), BMGF Global Health Travel Award (USA, 2018), Best Abstract Award (2018), CNPq-TWAS Postdoctoral Fellowship Award (Brazil, 2017), ACU Early Career Grant (UK, 2017), CLINAM Fellowship (Switzerland, 2017), Vice-Chancellor’s Overall Best PhD Student Postgraduate Prize Awards (2017), PolyChar/UNL Fellowship (USA, 2015), Best Departmental Graduating Student Award (2007), among others.
Kenechukwu won the Tertiary Education Fund (TETFund) NRF Grant Award (Nigeria) as the principal investigator. He also has won several research grants as co-investigator at UNN. Prof. Kenechukwu has successfully supervised/mentored several students, has been editor/reviewer for more than twenty international journals and Elsevier books. He belongs to several local/national/international professional associations/bodies and was recently rated as one of the top 500 most influencing researchers by Scholarly Output in Nigeria.
Prof. Kenechukwu is an affiliate of the African Academy of Science (AAS), a highly competitive Mentorship Scheme designed for future African Research Leaders. His academic/research ambitions are to develop nanomedicines for treatment of infections/diseases.

Discipline:

Pharmacy

Area Of Specialization:

Drug Delivery and Pharmaceutical Nanoscience

Institution:

University of Nigeria Nsukka

Research interest:

Drug Delivery, Polymer characterization, Excipient Development, Formulation Design and Development, Nanomedicine.

Awards:

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Global Health Travel Award (2023).

The Joint International Tropical Medicine Meeting (JITMM, 2022) Travel Award.

International Foundation for Science (IFS) Research Grant 2021.

Molecular Approaches to Malaria (MAM) 2020 Travel Award.

Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) National Research Fund (NRF) Grant 2019 (Principal Researcher).

African-German Network of Excellence in Science (AGNES) Junior Researcher Grant (JRG) 2019.

Wellcome Centre for Anti-infectives Research (WCAIR) Travel Award 2019.

The National Institute of Science and Technology of Complex Fluids (O Instituto Nacional de Ciencia e Tecnologia de Fluidos Complexos: INCT-FCx) Travel Award 2019.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Global Health Travel Award. https://www.keystonesymposia.org/index.cfm?e=web.Meeting.Scholarships&meetingid=1650&subTab=scholarships

The National Council for Scientific and Technological Development and The World Academy of Sciences (CNPq-TWAS) Postdoctoral Fellowship Award 2017 http://posgraduacao.ufrj.br/noticia/1634; http://www.in.gov.br/materia/-/asset_publisher/Kujrw0TZC2Mb/content/id/11945925

Vice-Chancellor’s Postgraduate Prize Award as the Overall Best Graduating Ph.D Student (First Position) in the University of Nigeria, Nsukka for the 2016/2017 Session.

Vice-Chancellor’s Faculty Postgraduate Prize Award as the Best Graduating Ph.D Student in the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Nigeria, Nsukka for the 2016/2017 Session

Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) Early Career Grant https://www.acu.ac.uk/scholarships/early-career-conference-grants/past-recipients

CLINAM Fellowship 2017

Roles/Contributions:

Head, Department of Pharmaceutics, University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN).

Website:https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Franklin_Kenechukwu

Scopus:https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=55180690700

Google Scholar:https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=s87G-ucAAAAJ&hl=en

ORCID:https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1619-4474