Celestino Obua

Celestino Obua
Born	1959 (age 57–58) Uganda
Residence	Mbarara, Uganda
Nationality	Ugandan
Citizenship	Uganda
Alma mater	University of Dar es Salaam (Doctor of Medicine) Makerere University (MSc in Pharmacology) Karolinska University (PhD in Pharmacology)
Occupation	Physician, Pharmacologist, Academic and Academic Administrator
Years active	1986 — present
Known for	Academics
Title	Vice Chancellor Mbarara University of Science and Technology

Professor Celestino Obua is a Ugandan physician, pharmacologist, academic and academic administrator. He is the current Vice Chancellor of Mbarara University of Science and Technology. He assumed that position on Friday, 24 October 2014. Prior to that, he served as the Deputy Principal of Makerere University College of Health Sciences.

He was born in Uganda, circa 1959.

He holds the degree of Doctor of Medicine (MD), obtained from the University of Dar es Salaam. He also holds the degree of Master of Science in Pharmacology, obtained from Makerere University, the oldest and largest public university in Uganda. His Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), also in pharmacology, was obtained from Karolinska University, in collaboration with Makerere University, in January 2009.

Dr. Obua served as Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and eventually as Associate Professor of Pharmacology at Makerere University School of Biomedical Sciences (MUSBS), a component of Makerere University College of Health Sciences (MUCHS). He also served as the Deputy Principal of MUCHS, under the Principal, Professor Nelson Ssewankambo. On Friday 24 October 2014, he was installed as the Vice Chancellor of Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST), the second academic to serve in that position, after Professor Frederick Kayanja, who served from 1989 until 2014.