STEPHENIE ALARIBE
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Chinwe Stephenie Alaribe

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Awards
December 2019 TETFUND
November 2023 • Learn Africa, Nigeria Wins! Project, The Women for Africa Foundation. In collaboration with Banco Santander, Cranfield Leadership Training Programme, United Kingdom

About me

Dr. Stephenie Chinwe A. Alaribe is a Bio and Pharmaceutical Chemist in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lagos, Nigeria. Her teaching and research interests span the area of Medicinal & Natural Product Chemistry; Computational and Bio-imaging studies for Drug Design; Quality Analysis of Drugs, Drug-related and Herbal Products.
Dr Alaribe heads a Molecular Networking (MN) research group that uses Computational and Molecular smart tools to explore secondary metabolites in Natural and herbal Products and as possibly drug targets. She is a recipient of several awards including; Learn Africa, Nigeria Wins! Project, The Women for Africa Foundation, In collaboration with Banco Santander, Cranfield Leadership Training Programme, United Kingdom, The Foundation Women For Africa, Mujerespor Africa, Science by Women Travel Award, Sub-Saharan Africa Women Researchers Grant Programme, University of Alicante, Foundacion, para la Investigacion del Hospital Clinico de la Communidad Valenciana- INCLIVA, Valencia, Spain., Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), TETFUND, African Science Literacy Network (ASLN) Fellow Award, Britain Biochemical Society, UK Travel Award, to mention but a few.

Stephenie Alaribe, Ph.D, MRSC, MIPAN, is a Bio and Pharmaceutical Chemist at the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lagos, Nigeria where she is focused in the area of Medicinal & Natural Product Chemistry(specific molecular targets on selected infectious diseases (Malaria) and Modulatory / signaling Pathways in cancer research); Quality Analysis of Drugs, Drug-related, Herbal Products, Computational, Molecular smart tools in exploring existing and new compounds in green African flora.
Dr Alaribe is also a certified Public Analyst with a specialty in drugs and drug-related products and has collaborated and is still collaborating with different teams on some funded research, including novel bioactives with modulatory potentials.
Also, Stephenie has explored and implemented several grants, national and international including the Cranfield, Female Professor Leadership Programme, Nigeria Wins Grant, UK, Science by Women, Mujeres Por Africa Foundation Fellowship Grant, Spain; Royal Society of Chemistry Research Grant (RSC), National Research Tertiary Education Trust Fund; African Science Literacy Network (ASLN) Fellow Award, Britain Biochemical Society, UK Travel Award, Drug Discovery for Africa, co-sponsored by Volkswagenstiftung, Germany,
In addition to expanding and sharing knowledge, Dr. Stephenie has contributed to published research articles on the In-silico, in vitro & in vivo assessment of bioactive compounds, Medicinal & Natural Products Toxicity Assessment, Nanomedicine, Structure-based Molecular Networking, Molecular Docking, Dynamics Simulation Research, Phytochemicals, to mention but a few.
She is also an active member of academic organizations, including the American Society of Pharmacognosy, USA, Royal Society of Chemistry, UK. Biochemical Society, UK; Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS); Institute of Public Analysts of Nigeria, IPAN; International Society for Infectious Diseases (ISID); Societa Italo-Latinoamericana of Ethnomedicine. (SILAE), Africa Representative, and Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World.
She has supervised and co-supervised Ph.D, MSc, and undergraduate students, and is also a reviewer of manuscripts to several journal bodies such as Journal of Ethnopharmacology, Elsevier, Journal of Medicinal Plants for Economic Development - JOMPED, AOSIS, Frontier.

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OWSD, UNILAG Branch

Degrees:

2011
Doctorate     Chemical Sciences
Medicinal/Natural Product Chemistry
2005
Master     Chemical Sciences
Medicinal / Natural Product Chemistry
2001
Undergraduate     Biological Systems and Organisms
Medicinal Biochemistry

Publications resulting from Research
Sarah Szwarc, Adriano Rutz, Kyungha Lee, Yassine Mejri, Olivier Bonnet, Hazrina Hazni, Adrien Jagora, Rany Berty Mbeng Obame, Jin Kyoung Noh, Elvis Otogo N’Nang, Stephenie C. Alaribe, Khalijah Awang, Guillaume Bernadat, Young Hae Choi, Vincent Courdavault, Michel Frederich, Thomas Gaslonde, Florian Huber, Toh-Seok Kam, Yun Yee Low, Erwan Poupon, Justin J.J. van der Hooft, Kyo Bin Kang, Pierre Le Pogam and Mehdi A. Beniddir . (2025). Translating community-wide spectral library into actionable chemical knowledge: A proof of concept with monoterpene indole alkaloid. J Cheminform 17, 62 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13321-025-01009-0

Stephenie C. Alaribe, Titilayo E. Blessing, Akolade R. Oladipupo, Ufonobong N. Ikpatt , Faizah A. Alabi and Richard I. Ikwuagbado. (2024) Computational Methods for Advanced Mass Spectrometry. Physical Sciences Reviews. De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/psr-2024-0006
Alaribe SC, Adekogbe OF, Titilayo BE, Ejiah FN., Nnadi CN., Okoh SO., Ojemaye MO., Familoni OB., Okoh AI. (2024) In vitro and animal model estimation of the anti-inflammatory and antinociceptive activities of Abrus precatorius (fabaceae) plant-mediated nanoparticles. HSI Journal 6(2):932-942. https://doi.org/10.46829/hsijournal.2024.12.6.2.932-942
Francisca Nwaokorie, Mohnad Abdalla, Uwem Okon Edet, Ahmed M.E. Abdalla, Archimedes Ekomobong, Ashwag Shami, Ini Ubi Bassey, Faris J. Tayeb, Destiny E. Charlie, Bassey Oyom David, Nisreen Daffa Alla Omer Hajedri, Charles Patrick Archibong, Akinboboye Bolanle Oyeyemi, Stephenie C. Alaribe. (2024). In-silico assessment of bioactive compounds from chewing stick (Salvadora persica) against N-acetylneuraminate lyase (5ZKA) of Fusobacterium nucleatum involved in salicylic acid metabolism. Journal of Molecular Structure. Elsevier. 1316 (2024) 138733. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molstruc.2024.138733
5. Oladipupo, A. R., Alaribe, S. C. A., Ogunlaja, A. S., Beniddir, M. A., Gordon, A. T., Ogah, C. O., … Coker, H. A. B. (2023). Structure-based molecular networking, molecular docking, dynamics simulation, and pharmacokinetic studies of Olax subscorpioidea for identification of potential inhibitors against selected cancer targets. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics, 42(3), 1110–1125. https://doi.org/10.1080/07391102.2023.2198032 .
Oladipupo, A.R., Alaribe, S.C.A., Ogunlaja, A.S., Beniddir, M.A.,.Ogah, C.O., Joy Okpuzor, J., Coker, H.A.B. (2023) Chemical and Biological Insights on Phaulopsis falcisepala: A Source of Bioactive Compounds with Multifunctional Anticancer Potentials. Chemistry Africa 6, 1175–1189. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42250-022-00553-8 .
Blessing E. Titilayo, Rukayat A. Adedeji, Akolade R. Oladipupo, Gordon Allen, Mehdi A. Beniddir, Stephenie C. Alaribe. (2024). Leveraging Computational and Omics Technologies to Advance Herbal and Natural Medicine Research in West Africa. Proceedings of the University of Lagos, 17th UNILAG Annual Research Conference. Digital Transformation for Inclusive Higher Education. Pg 231- 244.

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