Full Member
Lydia Bunalema
Membership since:
2025
Field of activity:
Other Memberships/Affiliations
Uganda Pharmacological Society
School of Bimedical Sciences Institution review board
Degrees:
2018
Doctorate Medical and Health Sciences incl Neurosciences
2010
Master Medical and Health Sciences incl Neurosciences
2005
Undergraduate Medical and Health Sciences incl Neurosciences
Publications resulting from Research
Lydia Bunalema, Moses Ocan, Godfrey S. Bbosa, Aloysious Lubega, Hindum Lanyero, Immaculate Neheza. Anti-Mycobacterial and Synergistic Activity of Synthetic Acridine-9-Carboraldehyde and 9-Hydroxy-4-Methoxy Acridine Alkaloids against Clinical Isolates of Multidrug-Resistant Mycobacterium Tuberculosis. Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology Research 6 (2022): 25-34
Obakiro, Samuel Baker; Kiprop, Ambrose; Kigondu, Elizabeth; K’Owino, Isaac; Odero, Mark Peter; Manyim, Scolastica; Omara, Timothy; Namukobe, Jane; Owor, Richard Oriko; Gavamukulya, Yahaya; Bunalema, Lydia. (2021). Traditional medicinal uses, phytoconstituents, bioactivities, and toxicities of erythrina abyssinica lam. ex DC. (Fabaceae ): Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/5513484
Samuel Obakiro, Ambrose Kiprop, Isaac Kowino, Elizabeth Kigondu, Mark Peter Odero, Timothy Omara and Lydia Bunalema (2020). Ethnobotany, ethnopharmacology and phytochemistry of traditional medicinal plants used in the management of symptoms of tuberculosis in East Africa: a systematic review. BMC Tropical Medicine and Health 48:68
Obakiro Samuel, Lydia Bunalema, Ndukui G James, Nyatia E and Paul Waako (2018) Ulcerogenic Potential of Eucalyptus globulus L. Leaf Extract in Wistar Albino Rats. Journal of Pharmacology and Toxicology ISSN 1816-496X.
Lydia Bunalema, Ghislain Wabo Fotso, Paul Waako, John Tabuti and Samuel O. Yeboah (2017). Potential of Zanthoxylum leprieurii as a source of active compounds against drug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis. BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 17:89
Lydia Bunalema, John Tabuti, Yahaya Sekagya, Sam Ogwang, Paul Waako (2015). Anti-tubercular activity of Callistemon citrinus and Piptadenistrum africanum on resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis using Microplate alamar blue assay. Spatula DD 5, 235-240
Lydia Bunalema, Samuel Obakiro, Paul Waako and Tabuti JRS (2014). Knowledge on plants used traditionally in the treatment of tuberculosis in Uganda. Journal of Ethnopharmacology 151, 999-1004
Claude Kirimuhuzya, Lydia Bunalema, Paul Waako, Tabuti JRS, Orodho John, Magadula Jangu Joseph, Otieno Nicholas and Okemo Paul (2012). Efficacy of Cryptolepis sanguinolenta root extract on slow-growing rifampicin resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Medicinal Plant Research. Vol. 6(7), pp. 1140-1146
Lydia Bunalema, Kirimuhuzya Claude, Waako Paul, Tabuti JRS, Orodho John, Magadula Jangu Joseph, Otieno Nicholas and Okemo Paul (2011). The efficacy of crude root bark extracts of Erythrina abyssinica on rifampicin resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis. African Health Sciences Journal 11(4): 587 – 593
Obakiro, Samuel Baker; Kiprop, Ambrose; Kigondu, Elizabeth; K’Owino, Isaac; Odero, Mark Peter; Manyim, Scolastica; Omara, Timothy; Namukobe, Jane; Owor, Richard Oriko; Gavamukulya, Yahaya; Bunalema, Lydia. (2021). Traditional medicinal uses, phytoconstituents, bioactivities, and toxicities of erythrina abyssinica lam. ex DC. (Fabaceae ): Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/5513484
Samuel Obakiro, Ambrose Kiprop, Isaac Kowino, Elizabeth Kigondu, Mark Peter Odero, Timothy Omara and Lydia Bunalema (2020). Ethnobotany, ethnopharmacology and phytochemistry of traditional medicinal plants used in the management of symptoms of tuberculosis in East Africa: a systematic review. BMC Tropical Medicine and Health 48:68
Obakiro Samuel, Lydia Bunalema, Ndukui G James, Nyatia E and Paul Waako (2018) Ulcerogenic Potential of Eucalyptus globulus L. Leaf Extract in Wistar Albino Rats. Journal of Pharmacology and Toxicology ISSN 1816-496X.
Lydia Bunalema, Ghislain Wabo Fotso, Paul Waako, John Tabuti and Samuel O. Yeboah (2017). Potential of Zanthoxylum leprieurii as a source of active compounds against drug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis. BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 17:89
Lydia Bunalema, John Tabuti, Yahaya Sekagya, Sam Ogwang, Paul Waako (2015). Anti-tubercular activity of Callistemon citrinus and Piptadenistrum africanum on resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis using Microplate alamar blue assay. Spatula DD 5, 235-240
Lydia Bunalema, Samuel Obakiro, Paul Waako and Tabuti JRS (2014). Knowledge on plants used traditionally in the treatment of tuberculosis in Uganda. Journal of Ethnopharmacology 151, 999-1004
Claude Kirimuhuzya, Lydia Bunalema, Paul Waako, Tabuti JRS, Orodho John, Magadula Jangu Joseph, Otieno Nicholas and Okemo Paul (2012). Efficacy of Cryptolepis sanguinolenta root extract on slow-growing rifampicin resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Medicinal Plant Research. Vol. 6(7), pp. 1140-1146
Lydia Bunalema, Kirimuhuzya Claude, Waako Paul, Tabuti JRS, Orodho John, Magadula Jangu Joseph, Otieno Nicholas and Okemo Paul (2011). The efficacy of crude root bark extracts of Erythrina abyssinica on rifampicin resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis. African Health Sciences Journal 11(4): 587 – 593
Joint annual Scientific Health Coference
2025
UgandaJoint annual Scientific Health Coference
2025
UgandaGordon research conferences, Frontiers of Science
2025
USAWorld congress of Pharmacologists
2025
South Africa16th NAPRECA Symposium
2025
Arusha