Dr Gueyraud Rolland Kipre is a Research Fellow at the Laboratory of Biology and Health, UFR Biosciences, at the Félix Houphouët-Boigny University, Côte d'Ivoire.
He carried out part of his thesis work at the Muséum National d'Histoires Naturelles in Paris, France, where he learned how to use chemical extraction techniques to obtain the different fractions of natural anti-malarial compounds as well as biological and biochemical techniques for in vitro culture of Plasmodium falciparum.
Dr Kipre then used molecular biology techniques including multiplexed Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) to characterize some isolates of Plasmodium falciparum collected from patients suffering from uncomplicated malaria in Côte d'Ivoire. His work was sanctioned by the public defense of the single PhD thesis titled "Evaluation of the antiplasmodial activity of Olax subscorpioidea and Morinda morindoides and chloroquine potentiation assay".
He also spent six months at the National Brain Research Centre in India in the framework of the "National Brain Research Centre", a post-doctoral project "C.V. Raman International Fellowship for African Researchers 2016". This project allowed him to master the manipulation of neural stem cells.
