Professor Oluwatoyin A. Odeku

Professor Oluwatoyin A. Odeku is a Professor of Pharmaceutics and former Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. She graduated with a Bachelor of Pharmacy from the University of Ife now Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, and obtained her M.Sc. and PhD degrees from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. She also holds a Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) degree from the University of Benin. She joined the service of the University of Ibadan as an Assistant lecturer in 1993 and rose to become a Professor in 2008.

Professor Odeku had her postdoctoral training at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem School of Pharmacy, Jerusalem, Israel. She has been a Visiting Scientist at various Universities within and outside Nigeria. She has served as a visiting Professor to several Universities including the University of Bonn, Germany; the University of Potsdam, Germany and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana, among others.

She has received many awards including UNESCO/Israel Co-Sponsored Post-Doctoral Fellowship, MacArthur Foundation Grant, CAS-TWAS Visiting Scholar Fellowship, TWAS Research Grants, DAAD Visiting Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship, and the CV Raman Senior Fellowship, among others. She is a 2006 Georg Forster Research Fellow at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg. She returned to Bonn for a research group linkage from 2011 to 2014 and is currently collaborating with colleagues at the University of Potsdam, Germany. She is a recipient of the 2021 Humboldt Alumni Award for Innovative Networking Initiatives where she is undertaking a structured mentoring program for women in academia across Nigeria. She is the Humboldt Ambassador Scientist in Nigeria for the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany.

Odeku is a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science, the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, the West African Postgraduate College of Pharmacists, and the Nigerian Academy of Pharmacy.