Research Scientist

Liva Harinantenaina R. R. was awarded a Japanese Mumbusho scholarship to undertake his PhD studies at Hiroshima University, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, where he got his PhD in 2003. After a two year research as a Post-doc fellow at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Science in Tokushima Bunri University, he was awarded a two years Japanese Society for Promotion of Sciences scholarship to conduct a research entitled "Search for novel and Biologically Active Compounds from Malagasy Liverworts" in the same institution. From April 2007 to March 2009, he was appointed as an Assistant Professor at Hiroshima University, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences. His research interests are centered mainly on the isolation and structure determination and biological activities (anti-diabetic, anti-cancer, anti-microbial & properties) of the chemical constituents of higher plants, liverworts and marine natural products.

Category: ICBG
Website: www.geocities.co.jp/livaromuald