Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) – the outstanding expertise of JKUAT fall into two main areas: development of food products from locally available raw materials and rapid quality assessment (physical, biochemical and functional properties) of raw materials and finished products before, during and after processing and storage. The laboratory of the partner is extremely well equipped including a variety of methods used for conventional analysis of dairy products. The partner possesses nationally accredited food fortification laboratory (EU funded). E.Wafula (the main investigator) has been trained abroad on the processing of new food products and which she adopted to the local Kenyan context.
Professor Mercy Githua (PhD) is an associate professor in the department of Chemistry of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) Kenya.
She graduated with a PhD in Natural products Chemistry from JKUAT. She is an experienced researcher whose research interests revolve around extraction, isolation, purification and structural elucidation of Naturally occuring chemical compounds with biological activities against various pathogens, in order to come up with solutions of some of the problems facing mankind. Some of the problems addressed include human and animal health, food production and food security among others.
She has authored and co-authored several peer reviewed journals articles with many citations. She has attended and presented in various scientific conferences .