Pius Tshimankinda MPIANA (PhD, MACCOS, FAAS) is Professor at faculty of science and technology, chemistry and industry department, University of Kinshasa since 2003. He is the President of National Scientific Council of DRC from 2022 and so, coordinates all research institutions of the country. He is member of Congolese academy of science ACCOS where he is the secretary of the natural science section, president of the permanent scientific commission of the association of chemists of DR Congo and was a senior associate at The Abdus Salam Centre of Theoretical Physics ICTP, Trieste, Italy (2009-2015). He is the editor responsible of the Congolese journal of science and technology and member of many journal editorial boards. He has directed or co-directed 13 doctoral theses and has obtained funding for several research projects. Prof Mpiana have received some national prizes including the Diploma and medal of scientific merit of DRC given by the Ministry of high education in 2010. He is author and co-author of six books and more than 400 research Articles, chapters in books and conference proceedings; that give him a h-index of 46, i10-index of 157 with 6869 citations. This allow him to be ranked (AD ranking) as the best Congolese researcher since 2022
The main research domain of Prof Mpiana is haemoglobin S and sickle cell anaemia. He is interested in medicinal plants used against this chronic disease and had developed a phytomedicine (drepanoalpha) and a nutraceutical (drepathe) against sickle cell disease. He is the head of a big interdisciplinary and interuniversity research group that isolated some molecules with antisickling activities. Some of these molecules were patented ( WIPO, US and South African patents).
