Dr Tafadzwa Taderera

Chairperson & Senior Lecturer

Dr Tafadzwa Taderera

DPhil, Pharmaceutical and Physiological Sciences, UZ (Zimbabwe); MPhil, Pharmaceutical Sciences, UZ (Zimbabwe); BSc Hons Biochemistry, UZ (Zimbabwe)

Telephone +263 4 303211 Extension 17116

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Professional Experience: Dr Taderera has been a member of the University for more than 10 years. She started off as a Graduate teaching assistant in the School of Pharmacy in 2005 and later moved to the Department of Physiology during her DPhil studies in 2011. Dr Taderera has a passion in research on the therapeutic efficacy of traditional medicinal plants in the treatment of different ailments. She was recently awarded a 2-year post-doctoral grant from the UZCHS-PERFECT programme and she will be working on the management of mental health illnesses using traditional medicinal plants. She has been a recipient of the SACORE grant during her DPhil studies, Ministry of Environment- UNDP scholarship during Masters and has won several other prestigious grants for research, workshop and conference attendance. She has spent time at Tshwane University of Technology, Biomedical Sciences Department during her DPhil studies.

She is a member of the Natural Products Research Network for Eastern and Central Africa (NAPRECA). To date she has 18 publications, some here listed.

Publications:

1. Marume A, Matope G, Katsande S, Khoza S, Mutingwende I, Mduluza T, Munodawafa-Taderera T and Ndhlala AR (2017) Wound Healing Properties of Selected Plants Used in Ethnoveterinary Medicine. Front. Pharmacol. 8:544. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2017.00544

2. Tapiwa Magada, Tafadzwa Taderera, and Tariro Mawoza, (2017).   Comparison study on the hypogylycaemic effects of Sclerocarya birrea aqueous stem-bark extracts versus leaf extracts in alloxan-induced diabetic rats, Journal of Applied Sciences In Southern Africa JASSA 002/0017

3. Tafadzwa Taderera¹, Exnevia Gomo² and Lameck Shoriwa Chagonda¹ (2016). The Antidiabetic Activity of an Aqueous Root Extract of Annona stenophylla Engl. and Diels in Non-diabetic Control and Alloxan-induced Diabetic rats. Journal of Biologically Active Plants from Nature, Taylor and Francis, TBAP6 (4) PP 315-322, DOI:10.1080/22311866.2016.1234412.

4. Tafadzwa Munodawafa^*, Sylvester Moyo, Batsirai Chipurura and Lameck Chagonda. (2016). Brineshrimp Lethality Bioassay of Some Selected Zimbabwean Traditional Medicinal Plants, International Journal of Phytopharmacology, 7(4), 229-232.

5. Matimba Grace, Mawoza Tariro, Louis L Gadaga_, Mubika Bernard, Chitindingu Kudakwashe and Taderera Tafadzwa* (2015). Mechanistic studies of myorelaxant effects of an ethanolic leaf extract of Eriobotyra japonica on isolated rabbit ileum. International Journal of Research and Development in Pharmacy and Life Sciences , Vol. 4, No.4, pp 1679-1685

6. Tafadzwa Taderera_, Tapiwa Siziba, Louis Gadaga, Dexter Tagwireyi, Exnevia Gomo and Felicity Bierman_, Lameck Shoriwa Chagonda^. (2015). Acute and Sub-acute Oral toxicity of Hydroethanolic Root Extract of Annona stenophylla Engl. and Diels in Sprague Dawley Rats. Journal of Biologically Active Products from Nature Volume 5, Issue 5, 5:5, 349-356, DOI:10.1080/22311866.2015.1110501.