Mr. Godwin Anywar was awarded a Young Investigator Fellowship for the 19th International Congress of the International Society of Ethnopharmacology. Godwin is an Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Plant Sciences, Microbiology and Biotechnology at CoNAS.The award was honouring his scientific contribution on ‘Indigenous Traditional Knowledge and Practices used by Herbalists in the Treatment of Opportunistic Infections in HIV/AIDS in Uganda’ and ‘Investigation of Anti-malarial, Genotoxic and Antibacterial Properties of African Medicinal Plants traditionally used in Western and Central Uganda’.The work from his investigations was presented at the 19th Congress of the International Congress that took place in Dresden, Germany on the 12th – 14th June 2019.