Professor Thavendren Govender

# A Node For African Thought

Research and Innovation

To achieve and maintain the University’s vision and mission, the research and innovation division contributes mainly by promoting the research related goal of the institution which is: to drive growth in UNIZULU research and Innovation

Faculty: Science, Agriculture and Engineering

Department: Chemistry

Discipline: Organic Chemistry

Highest Qualification

Ph.D. Chemistry

Contact details

Email: GovenderT@unizulu.ac.za

Phone: 035 902

Campus: KwaDlangezwa

Research Interest Areas

Organic Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Microbiology

Research Niche Area(s) of current projects

Synthetic Chemistry
Drug Discovery

Teaching Interest Areas

Drug Discovery
Synthetic Chemistry
Brain Diseases
Drug Resistant Bacteria

Active Research Projects

Asymmetric Catalysis (Principal Investigator
Green Chemistry
Maldi TOF MS imaging (Principal Investigator)
Nano Antibiotics (Principal Investigator)
Maldi TOF MS imaging (Principal Investigator)
Novel Metallo Beta Lactamase inhibitors (Principal Investigator)
Improved commercial purification of Insulin (Principal Investigator)

Impactful Research Publications

(Author(s); Year; Title; journal / publisher)

In Vitro and In Vivo Development of a β-Lactam-Metallo-β-Lactamase Inhibitor: Targeting Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacterales. BK Peters, N Reddy, M Shungube, L Girdhari, S Baijnath, S Mdanda, ...ACS Infectious Diseases 9 (3), 486-496

Antibiotic‐Derived Radiotracers for Positron Emission Tomography: Nuclear or “Unclear” Infection Imaging? AC Gouws, HG Kruger, O Gheysens, JR Zeevaart, T Govender, T Naicker, ...Angewandte Chemie International Edition 61 (45), e202204955

VT Sabe, T Ntombela, LA Jhamba, GEM Maguire, T Govender, T Naicker. Current trends in computer aided drug design and a highlight of drugs discovered via computational techniques: A review European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 224, 113705

S Natarajan, K Govender, A Shobo, S Baijnath, PI Arvidsson, T Govender, Potential of brain mast cells for therapeutic application in the immune response to bacterial and viral infections. Brain Research 1767, 147524