ASONGWE LIONEL ATEH TANTOH

Dr. Asongwe L A Tantoh is a clinical scientist and immunologist with doctoral degree obtained from the University of Cape Town in collaboration with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria, South Africa. He was a vital component of a "A" team that was in charge of designing, creating, and validating the first high-throughput, high-content microarray cell-based screening technology in Africa. He worked with the Emerging Research group (ERA) after completing his postdoctoral studies at the CSIR, where one of his primary duties was to instruct other researchers on the operational aspects of the screening platform. He started off as a researcher at the CSIR, where he is still employed now. Dr. Tantoh works as a researcher in the small molecule microarray screening, biotechnology, system biology domains, disease profiling, and drug discovery. He is the principal investigator for the CSIR Miniaturized Array-Based Profiling Technology. His research aims to develop novel, miniature small molecule screening technology that can be used to investigate different disease models and improve the current, inadequate treatment management of infectious diseases such as AMR, HSV, HCV, and HIV/AIDS.

• CSIR Biosciences Service 5 year (awarded in January 2020)
• ICGEB Fellowship: Pre-doctoral fellowship 2010 to 2014.
• Persomics Fellowship: Pre-doctoral fellowship 2013 to 2014.

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• Contributor in attracting R 800 000 research grant to fund on-going natural compounds High-throughput screening project 2014- 2015.
• Contributor in attracting R 1.8 million research grant to fund on-going natural compounds high High-throughput Microarray Screening project 2016- 2017.
• Contributor in attracting R 6.0 million research grant From DSI, With R million directed to develop a multiplex microarray diagnostic technology 2023- 2024.

Currently training two Laboratory Technicians and two PhD students, Ms Mpumi Mthimkulu, University of Cape Town and Mr Malose Mokwena, University of Witwaterstrand) on how to perform High-throughput Microarray Screening to address specific biological questions as well as developing novel but specific applications using the microarray technology for biological target identification.

• ID Number: 8108106369187
• Nationality: Cameroonian

Dr Zandile P Mahlangu, University of Cape Town, Identification of new therapeutic compounds against carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae using a novel agar-based high-throughput microarray compound screening approach., 2023

• High-throughput RNA interference based screens for identification of human host factors implicated in Listeria monocytogenes infection (https://open.uct.ac.za/handle/11427/29121/browse?type=author&value=Tantoh%2C+Asongwe+Lionel+Ateh)
• MSc. Thesis Development of a synthetic affinity membrane for the purification of recombinant maltose binding proteins (http://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/1863)

• Presenter at the 10th Annual Free State Department of Health Research, November 17, 2022
• Presenter at the 5th CSIR Conference, Ideas that work (2015).
• Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (Slas) 2012 1st annual conference and exhibition (San Diego, CA, USA).
• South African Society of Biochemistry and molecular biology (SASBMB) -2006, (Durban, SA). 13th International conference on Near Infrared spectroscopy (NIR) - 2007, (Cape Town, SA).