Dr Andrew Mtewa has a PhD in Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Discovery. He did his studies concurrently at the University of Dundee in Scotland under the Wellcome Center for Antiinfectives Research (WCAIR) training program and the Mbarara University of Science and Technology in Uganda where he graduated from. His MSc was in Applied Chemistry in the area of Natural Products and drug discovery from the University of Malawi. He has worked on plant-derived compounds as well as synthetics in the development of potential drug leads against various disease targets using computer-aided drug discovery (CADD) among other tools. One of his current projects is the design, synthesis and development of potential imidazole drug agents against infections with much focus on ADMET property optimzation. Dr Mtewa has published over 50 journal articles, book chapters and books over the years. He is the lead editor of ‘Phytochemistry, the Military and Health’ by Elsevier and ‘Poisonous Plants and Phytochemicals in Drug Discovery’ by Wiley. Currently, he is a Chemistry lecturer at the Malawi University of Science and Technology in Malawi.
