Ifedayo Victor Ogungbe, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Chemistry Contact 301 Sparkman Drive Materials Science BuildingRoom 211Huntsville, AL 35899 Campus Map 256.824.2923victor.ogungbe@uah.edu Biography Curriculum Vitae Education Ph.D., Biotechnology Science and Engineering, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, 2011 M.S., Chemistry, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, 2009 Expertise Drug discovery for infectious diseases, cancer, and crop protection; Drug target identification; chemical proteomics; and lipidomics. Recent Publications Nyamwihura RJ, Ogungbe IV. The pinene scaffold: its occurrence, chemistry, synthetic utility, and pharmacological importance. RSC advances. 2022, 12, 11346-11375. Nyamwihura RJ, Zhang H, Collins JT, Crown O, Ogungbe IV. Nopol-Based Quinoline Derivatives as Antiplasmodial Agents. Molecules. 2021, 26: 1008. PMC7917639 Santos CC, Zhang H, Batista MM, de Oliveira GM, Demarque KC, da Silva-Gomes NL, Moreira OC, Ogungbe IV, Soeiro MD. In Vitro and In Vivo Evaluation of an Adamantyl-Based Phenyl Sulfonyl Acetamide against Cutaneous Leishmaniasis Models of Leishmania amazonensis. Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy. 2020, 64: e01188-20. Zhang H, Harmon M, Radoshitzky Sheli, Soloveva V, Kane Chris, Duplantier Allen, Ogungbe, IV. Vinyl Sulfone-Based Inhibitors of Non-Structural Protein 2 Block the Replication of Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis Virus. ACS Med. Chem. Letters, 2020, 11, 2139–2145 Zhang H, Collins J, Nyamwihura R, Crown O, Ajayi O, Ogungbe IV. Vinyl Sulfone-based Inhibitors of Trypanosomal Cysteine Protease Rhodesain with Improved Antitrypanosomal Activities. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 2020, 127217. Zhang H, Collins J, Nyamwihura R, Ware S, Kaiser M, Ogungbe IV. Discovery of a Quinoline-Based Phenyl Sulfone Derivative as an Antitrypanosomal Agent. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters 2018, 28: 1647-1651. PMC5912169 Byler KG, Collins JT, Ogungbe IV, Setzer WN. Alphavirus protease inhibitors from natural sources: A homology modeling and molecular docking investigation. Comput Biol Chem. 2016, 64:163-184. PMID: 27387412. Jefferson T, McShan D, Warfield J, Ogungbe IV. Screening and Identification of Inhibitors of Trypanosoma brucei Cathepsin L with Antitrypanosomal Activity. Chemical Biology & Drug Design 2016, 58: 154-158. PMC4715686 McShan D, Kathman S, Lowe B, Xu Z, Zhan J, Statsyuk A, Ogungbe IV. Identification of non-peptidic cysteine reactive fragments as inhibitors of cysteine protease rhodesain. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters 2015, 25: 4509-4512. PMC4592840 Kaul TK, Reis Rodrigues P, Ogungbe IV, Kapahi P, Gill MS. Bacterial fatty acids enhance recovery from the dauer larva in Caenorhabditis elegans. PLoS One. 2014: 9(1):e86979. PMCID: PMC3901721