Dr. Moses K. Langat was born in Kenya and attended Kapkatet and Olenguruone DEB schools before joining Litein High. He graduated with a Bachelor degree in Education (Chemistry/Mathematics) from Egerton University, Kenya in 2002 followed by a distinction for the Master in Chemistry (organic and natural products option) at the same institution in 2005. Dr. Langat carried out his MSc research work at the Pyrethrum Board of Kenya under the Supervision of Prof. Peter K. Cheplogoi on the use of plant based synergists for pyrethrins. Dr. Langat joined Prof. Dulcie A. Mulholland at the University of KwaZulu Natal in August 2005 and accompanied Prof. Mulholland to the University of Surrey in January 2006 for his PhD. His PhD was on the phytochemistry of three African Croton species. After his PhD, Dr. Langat was employed as a postdoctoral fellow in Prof. Mulholland’s group from June 2009 to work on the EU funded FORESTSPECS project. Dr. Langat works closely with Prof. Mulholland being a senior research scientist in her Natural Products Research Group. Dr. Langat actively engages in community projects and leads efforts to improve teaching and learning in Kenya’s institutions. Through his efforts the Nishkam Centre, GNNSJ, Birmingham has donated educational materials to primary schools in Kenyan counties. He has also acted as mentor and role model for Afro-Carribean students in Guildford schools.

His main research focuses on the discovery of novel drugs or drug leads from African traditional medicinal plants and their determination of absolute stereostructures using electronic circular dichroism. His main focus is on the phytochemistry of Croton plants.

Ndunda B, Langat MK, Mulholland DA, Eastman H, Jacob MR, Khan SI, Walker LA, Muhammad I, Kerubo LO, Midiwo JO. (2016) 'New ent-Clerodane and Abietane Diterpenoids from the Roots of Kenyan Croton megalocarpoides Friis & M. G. Gilbert'. PLANTA MEDICA, 82 (11-12), pp. 1079-1086. doi: 10.1055/s-0042-108857 Sihra JK, Thumser AE, Langat MK, Crouch NR, Mulholland DA. (2015) 'Constituents of Bulbs of three Species of the Hyacinthaceae (Hyacinthoideae): Eucomis vandermerwei, E. zambesiaca and Resnova humifusa'. NATURAL PRODUCT COMMUNICATIONS, 10 (7), pp. 1207-1209. Ndunda B, Langat MK, Midiwo JO, Omosa LK. (2015) 'Diterpenoid Derivatives of Kenyan Croton sylvaticus'. NATURAL PRODUCT COMMUNICATIONS, 10 (4), pp. 557-558. Langat MK, Randrianavelojosia M, Langat LC, Plant N, Mulholland DA. (2014) 'Langaside, a novel secoiridolactone glycoside derivative from Tachiadenus longiflorus Griseb. (Gentianaceae) formed by a [2+2] cycloaddition reaction'. Phytochemistry Letters, 10, pp. cxviii-cxxii. doi: 10.1016/j.phytol.2014.05.011