profile of personnel
University of Natal, Durban (UND)

Prof Dulcie Mulholland
Citizenship: SA
Qualification: PhD

Experience
Professor Dulcie Mulholland obtained her PhD in 1979 in Natural Products Chemistry from the University of Natal. She was appointed as a lecturer at the University of Natal in 1991 where she is now a Senior Professor and Head of the School of Pure and Applied Chemistry. She heads the Natural Products Research Group and the NMR and Mass Spectrometry Units at the University of Natal. The Natural Products Research Group comprises five academics, three technical staff and fifteen postgraduate students. Professor Mulholland has produced 15 PhD graduates and 20 MSc graduates and over 100 publications in the field of Natural Products Chemistry in the last ten years. Her record in the training of students from previously disadvantaged groups is exceptional with 14 PhD graduates and 19 MSc graduates coming from previously disadvantaged groups. She has been invited to give numerous plenary lectures at international conferences and is the recipient of a Wellcome Trust Equipment Grant for the provision of a 400 MHz NMR spectrometer.

Contribution to project
Isolation of pure compounds using HPLC and other chromatographic techniques, determination of structures isolated using NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance) spectroscopy, mass spectrometry and synthetic techniques. Development of analytical methods. Provision of instruments (400 MHz NMR spectrometer) and GC-MS to the project.