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- Tebello Nyokong was born in Lesotho on 20 October 1951, but spent most of her first eight years outside her country of birth.
- Born in South Africa, Prof Nyokong displayed a penchant for science from a young age.
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Tebello Nyokong holds a Department of Science and Innovation/National Research Foundation (DSI/NRF) Research chair at Rhodes University, South Africa. She is a Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and the Director of Institute for Nanotechnology Innovation at the same university. She is an NRF A rated researcher (A rating is defined as leading international researcher). She has successfully supervised over 170 MSc/PhD/post-doc students. She has published over 950 manuscripts (including editing a book and book chapters and patents).
She has received many awards for her research on photodynamic therapy of cancer and on eliminating antimicrobial resistance: Awarded honorary doctorates from McMaster University and Western University in Canada, Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Linstead lifetime Career Award on phthalocyanine chemistry, African Union Kwame Nkrumah award, and L'Oreal-UNESCO award for 'Women in Science'.
She was part of United Nation's Secretary General's High Level Panel for the development of supporting mechanism for the least developed countri
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Tebello Nyokong
Selected from the last three years 2021-2023
S. Centane, T. Nyokong, Co Phthalocyanine Mediated Electrochemical Detection of the Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2 in the Presence of Au and CeO2 Nanoparticles and Graphene Quantum Dots Bioelectrochem 149 (2023) 108301; N. Nwahara, G. Abrahams, J. Mack, E. Prinsloo, T. Nyokong; A hypoxia responsive silicon phthalocyanine containing naphthquinone axial ligands for photodynamic therapy activity, J. Inorg. Biochem, 239 (2023) 112078; L. C. Nene, T. Nyokong, Phthalocyanines and Graphene Quantum Dots Nano-systems as Dual Anti-Cancer Sensitizers for Photo-Sonodynamic Combinatorial Therapy Diamonds and Related Materials, 131 (2023) 109549; S. Mgidlana, P. Sen, T. Nyokong, Dual action of asymmetrical zinc(II)phthalocyanines conjugated to silver tungstate nanoparticles towards photodegradation of tetracycline and inactivation of Staphylococcus aureus bacteria; J. Photochem. Photobil. A: Chem 437 (2023) 114444; L.C. Nene T. Nyokong, The In-vitro Proliferation-Suppression of MCF-7 and HeLa Cell Lines Media
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Tebello Nyokong
South African chemist and professor
Tebello NyokongOMB, FRS, HonFRSC, FRSSAf (born 20 October 1951) is a South African chemist and distinguished professor at Rhodes University, and a recipient of South Africa's Order of Mapungubwe. She received the L’Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science representing Africa and the Arab States in 2009,[2] the South African Chemical Institute Gold Medal in 2012,[3] and was named one of the Top 10 Most Influential Women in Science and Technology in Africa by IT News Africa.[4] She is currently researching photo-dynamic therapy, an alternative cancer treatment method to chemotherapy.[4][5] In 2007, she was one of the top three publishing scientists in South Africa, and in 2013 she was awarded the National Research Foundation's Lifetime Achievement Award.[6]
Early life and education
"You believe you can be a wife and a mother and still be a bread winner and contribute to society. And you will" – Tebello Nyokong[7]
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