PH Mfengwana

Biography:

Prof Polo-Ma-Abiele Hildah Mfengwana is a South African health sciences researcher whose work centres on ethnopharmacology, drug discovery, and immunohematology. She is an Associate Professor and Head of the Health Sciences Department at the Central University of Technology, and her research focuses strongly on the preclinical development of anticancer agents derived from medicinal plants. Her scholarship explores the identification and characterisation of bioactive compounds, their efficacy, and their mechanisms of action, while also linking indigenous knowledge to modern oncology and therapeutic innovation. She has also contributed to research on medicinal plants with antibacterial, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, wound-healing, and related health applications.