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Godwin Anywar Upoki
Godwin Anywar Upoki (Born 1982) is a Ugandan academician, researcher, author and entrepreneur. He currently lectures at the Department of Plant Sciences, Microbiology at Makerere University.

Godwin completed his doctorate in 2020 from the Prestigious Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology in Leipzig, Germany, the Institute for Virology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Leipzig and Makerere University, Kampala on a split site model, where he investigated the anti-HIV-1, immunomodulatory activity and cytotoxicity of medicinal plants used by herbalists for treating people living with HIV/AIDS in Uganda.

He is actively involved in formulating and developing different natural products.

In 2007, he founded Green Herbs Limited which is a producer of various herbal medications and dietary supplements based in Kampala, Uganda.

Background and Education
Godwin Anwar attained his advanced Certificate of Education from Kitante Hill School and his Ordinary Level Education from Kibuli Senior Secondary school.

In 2007, he obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Ethnobotany with honors from Makerere University. He later obtained a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from Makerere University. The title of PhD Thesis was Ethnopharmacology, cytotoxicity, antiviral and immunomodulatory profiles of medicinal plant species used by herbalists in treating people living with HIV/AIDS in Uganda.

Career
In 2007, he joined Makerere University as a teaching assistant in the Department of Plant Sciences, Microbiology & Biotechnology, in the School of Biosciences, College of Natural Sciences. In 2016, he was promoted to the position of Assistant Lecturer in the same Department.

Awards and Membership
He is a recipient of several international awards accolades including:

The Young Investigator award/Fellowship of the 19th International Congress of the International Society of Ethnopharmacology at the Technische Universität in Dresden, Germany,

Member of the Global Young Academy, and a Fellow of the Uganda National Academy of Sciences (FUNAS).

He is a member of several professional bodies such as:- The Society of Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research, The International Society for Ethnopharmacology, The American Society of Pharmacognosy, The Society of Economic of Botany.

Godwin Anywar currently serves as the vice president of the Uganda Textbook Academic & Non-Fictional Writers Association (UTANA) ,

He is the vice president Natural Products Network for Eastern & Central Africa (NAPRECA) Uganda Chapter.

He is on the Editorial Board of PLOS ONE and also an Academic Editor. He is also the reviews editor, for the journal frontiers in Pharmacology – Ethnopharmacology.

Scholarly Work
Godwin Anywar has authored over 70 publications including book chapters, peer reviewer papers etc. His Profiles can be found on:


 * Research gate
 * Google Scholar
 * Loop Research Network
 * Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID)
 * The African Scientists Directory
 * The Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA)
 * Godwin Anywar website
 * Department of Plant Sciences, Microbiology & Biotechnology at Makerere University