Odukoya nominated as Fellow of Nigeria Academy of Pharmacy

A foremost pharmacist and the immediate past Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lagos, Prof. Olukemi Abiodun

Odukoya

Odukoya, was recently nominated Fellow of the Nigeria Academy of Pharmacy (NAP).

The NAP as the apex group of organized Pharmacy in Nigeria is made up of pharmacy professionals that have distinguished themselves in the various aspects of pharmacy practice in addition to contributing to nation building.

According to the notification of conferment of Fellowship of the Nigeria Academy of Pharmacy (FNAPharm) by NAP, “by this nomination, Professor Odukoya is entitled to insert after her name, the prestigious acronym (FNAPharm) representing Fellow of the Nigeria Academy of Pharmacy. The investiture ceremony into the roll of fellows comes up in Lagos on Tuesday, October 27, 2015.

Odukoya has contributed immensely to Pharmacy through education in the training of Pharmacists, advancement of the frontiers of knowledge in the areas of classical pharmacognosy, evaluation, standardization, phytochemistry of natural drug products and pioneered the first herbal therapeutics laboratory in the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lagos.

The achievement of her scholarly research has been communicated to others in form of publications, seminars and conferences both nationally and internationally. Some of these publications established Pharmacopeia standards, some unraveled the chemical constituents of biologically active medicinal plants while others evaluated and assessed some medicinal plants and herbal medicinal products for biological activity. Thus has helped to solve both social and economic problems related to health.

She is a recipient of various national and international awards and fellowships. Through excellence in research, her research team emerged as the University of Lagos best researcher in Science and Medicine for the year 2007 and 2008 and was awarded a Gold Medal as the highest honour for excellence and innovation in Research by the University of Lagos in 2011. She is an accomplished academic Pharmacist and the first female Professor of Pharmacognosy in Nigeria.”