Patrick Engeu Ogwang (born 1 January 1973) is a Ugandan pharmacist, pharmacologist, ethnobotanist, medical researcher and entrepreneur, who serves as an associate professor and Head of the Department of Pharmacy at Mbarara University in Uganda.
[2][3] While growing up, he observed how his mother would preserve different herbs and prepare them for her children when they fell ill with minor ailments such as fever, stomach pains and upper respiratory infections.
[2][3] Beginning circa 2004, Ogwang began serious study of the chemical compounds in the medicinal plants that were in his mother's first-aid kit.
Ogwang also took off time and volunteered at the National Chemotherapeutic Research Institute (NCRI), in Wandegeya, under Dr. Grace Nambatya Kyeyune.
[2][3] In 2020, when an American visiting professor contracted COVD-19 in Uganda, Ogwang modified a concoction that he had been developing to treat viral mouth ulcers.
[2][3] In May/June 2021, when the delta variant of the COVID-19 made its entry into Uganda, Ogwang shared his anti-COVID-19 nasal drops with some family members and close friends and they all got better.