Nigeria – Virtual Event

Tenured Professor of Pharmacology and Environmental Toxicology in the Department of Environmental and Interdisciplinary Sciences, Professor of Pharmaceutics and Health Sciences, Senior Scientist and Head, Vascular Biology Unit, Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Texas Southern University, Houston – Texas.  Dr. Yakubu employs interdisciplinary research approach integrating environmental, biological, pharmacological and toxicological analysis to meet the challenges of integrated medical and environmental concerns. Dr. Yakubu is twice a recipient of Carnegie Fellowship to the University of Ibadan, Nigeria Summer 2015 and University of Abuja, Nigeria Summer 2017. He is a member of Mission Connect – a Neurotrauma Translation Research Group a part of TIRR Foundation, Collaborates with the Child Nutrition Research Center of Baylor College of Medicine/ Texas Children Hospital, Texas Medical Center, and several other professional scientific bodies; American Society of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Society of Toxicology, Association of African Biomedical Scientists.

Ekundayo had his first degree in veterinary medicine and master’s in biochemistry from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He is currently a doctoral student in the laboratory of Professor Oyeronke Odunola in the Department of Biochemistry, University of Ibadan. He is developing alternative therapies for either preventing or indeed treating cancer by isolating and characterising bioactive compounds from medicinal plants. His research is also addressing the lack of mechanistic information on the role of those active compounds in cancer. Ekundayo is a University of Ibadan Scholar (graduated with distinctions in veterinary medicine) and a 2017 Commonwealth Split-site Ph.D. Scholar to the University of Bath, United Kingdom.

David was born in Agbor, Delta Sate, Nigeria, and obtained his BSc in pure and industrial chemistry jointly from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and Hokkaido University, Japan. He went ahead to do two separate master’s degrees in inorganic chemistry and nanoscience of advance metal complexes at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and Tohoku University, Japan, respectively. He is currently doing a Ph.D. in computational chemistry at the University of Cambridge. David uses computational and experimental techniques to investigate molecular designs and interactions around lanthanide ions needed for enhanced single-molecule magnets (SMM) behaviour for applications in quantum computing, information processing and data storage under the supervision of Dr. Alex Thom. He is leading a series of capacity building through science education/research in developing countries through a non-profit organization he founded, the Africa of Our Dream Initiative. His interest in entrepreneurship has seen him pursue new start-ups to address global problems like counterfeits across industries while in Cambridge.

Joerg Schlatterer, Ph.D., is the Assistant Director for Student and Postdoctoral Development, in the ACS Education Division. Prior to joining ACS, he served as a program director in the NSF Division of Graduate Education in Arlington, VA. Dr. Schlatterer received his Ph.D. from the University of Heidelberg. He loves dancing Argentine Tango, playing music, and taking long walks with his wife, Sarah.