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Juliet Obanda Makanga (née Juliet Obanda) is a Kenyan pharmacologist, neuroscientist and
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, who works as a
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in Clinical Pharmacology, at the School of Pharmacy of Kenyatta University, in
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, Nairobi.


Background and education

Juliet Obanda was born in Vihiga County in the south-western part of Kenya, on 19 February 1985. She attended
Alliance Girls High School Alliance Girls' High School (AGHS) is a public national boarding school for girls located near the small town of Kikuyu in the Kiambu District of the Central Province of Kenya, 20 km from Nairobi. Founded in 1948 as the African Girls High S ...
in the town of
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, in Kiambu County, in the central part of Kenya, where she obtained her
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, in 2002. In 2003, she was awarded the Japanese Government
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(MEXT Scholarship), to study
pharmacy Pharmacy is the science and practice of discovering, producing, preparing, dispensing, reviewing and monitoring medications, aiming to ensure the safe, effective, and affordable use of medicines. It is a miscellaneous science as it links heal ...
in Japan. She spent her first year in Japan at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, where she obtained a certificate of proficiency in the Japanese language. She then transferred to
Kanazawa University Kanazawa University ( ja, 金沢大学, Kanazawa Daigaku, abbreviated to ja, 金大, Kindai) is a Japanese national university in the city of Kanazawa, the capital of Ishikawa Prefecture. Founded in 1862, it was chartered as a university in 194 ...
in the city of Kanazawa, in the
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, in
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, on the
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(Main Island) of Japan. She spent the next eleven years at the university's ''Institute of Medical, Pharmaceutical and Health Sciences'', where she graduated with a Bachelor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, in 2008, an MSc in Pharmaceutical Sciences in 2010 and a PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences in 2015.


Career

While pursuing her doctorate in Japan, between 2010 and 2015, she worked as a teaching assistant and research associate at the College of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Ritsumeikan University, at the Biwako-Kusatsu Campus, in the town of Kusatsu, in Shiga Prefecture, Japan. Upon her return to Kenya in 2015, she was hired by Kabarak University, in Nakuru, where she served as the founding head of department of pharmacy and was a key figure in the establishment of the university's Bachelor of Pharmacy programme. In October 2017, she transferred to Kenyatta University as a lecturer at their School of Pharmacy. Her area of research interest is
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research. It is her goal to generate a uniquely "Kenyan" stem cell line.


Other considerations

In 2018,
Business Daily Africa ''Business Daily Africa'', commonly known as ''Business Daily'', is an English-language daily business newspaper published in Kenya. The newspaper is published by Nation Media Group from its headquarters at Nation Centre on Kimathi Street in Nairo ...
, a Kenyan daily English newspaper named Makanga, one of the Top 40 Under 40 Kenyan Women for the year 2018. Makanga is a married mother with one daughter, born .


See also

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Susane Nabulindo Susane Nabulindo Masakhwe (née Susane Nabulindo) is a Kenyan consultant anesthesiologist at the Kenyatta National Referral Hospital. Her specialty is pediatric anesthesiology, a specialty where, in 2014, there were only five qualified Kenyans ...
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Shitsama Nyamweya Sylvia Shitsama Nyamweya (née Sylvia Shitsama), is a Kenyan consultant neurosurgeon at the Kenyatta National Hospital, Kenyatta National Referral Hospital. She is the first female neurosurgeon in Kenya and one of a handful of female neurosurgeo ...
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Maureen Kimenye Maureen Kamene Kimenye Mariita, commonly known as Maureen Kimenye, is a Kenyan physician A physician (American English), medical practitioner (Commonwealth English), medical doctor, or simply doctor, is a health professional who pra ...


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at Kenyatta University {{DEFAULTSORT:Makanga, Juliet Obanda Living people 1985 births Kenyan scientists Kenyan pharmacologists Tokyo University of Foreign Studies alumni Kanazawa University alumni Alumni of Alliance Girls High School People from Vihiga County 21st-century Kenyan women scientists 21st-century Kenyan scientists