GRACE LAGAT
Dr. Grace Lagat is a Lecturer and Head of Analytical Chemistry Programmes at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, at the University of Eldoret, Kenya. She holds a Ph.D. (Chemistry) from Kansas University in the USA and an M.Sc. (Education Administration) from the University of Eastern Africa, Baraton, Kenya. She has over 20 years of university teaching experience including a 'KUWANA, Graduate Opportunity Academic Scholarship” at the University of Kansas, Kansas, USA. Also winning the 'Student and Young Investigator Travel Award” at the 3rd Biennial National Institutional Development Award Symposium of Biomedical Research Excellence, Bethesda, Maryland, USA, in 2010. Her research interests are in the structure-function analysis of biomolecules and their complexes and probing protein-protein interaction hotspots for structure-based drug design.