Professor Adeleke Clement Adebajo is a Professor of Pharmacognosy in the Department of Pharmacognosy and Herbal Medicine, University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS), Ho. He joined the School on the 11th of September, 2017.
Education
Professor A. C. Adebajo holds a 1983 B. Pharm. (Hons) degree from the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Nigeria, had his graduate trainings at OAU and bagged M.Sc. and Ph.D. (Pharmacognosy) degrees in 1988 and 1997, respectively. He also has the March 1991 Certificate of Proficiency (PNDS) in German Language from the Goethe Institute, Göttingen, Germany. He was a recipient of the 1990-1994 Deutscher Akademischer Austauchdienst (DAAD) Sandwich Scholarship to do a part of his Ph.D. research with Late Prof. Dr. Dr. med. Apotheker J. Reisch in Institute für Pharmazeutische Chemie, W.W. Universität, Münster, Germany as well as a 2006 DAAD Senior Fellowship in Prof. Dr. E.J. Verspohl’s laboratory, Institute für Pharmazeutische Chemie, W.W. Universität, Germany.
Work Experience
He started his career as a Junior Trainee Fellow (Graduate Assistant) in the Department of Pharmacognosy, OAU, in October 1985, after a one year Pharmacy Internship (1983/84) in the same department. He became a lecturer II in 1988, Lecturer I in 1994, Senior Lecturer in 1997, an Associate Professor in 2004 and a full Professor of Pharmacognosy in Ife, October, 2007. During the compulsory National Youth Service Scheme (August 1984-July, 1985), he was the Pharmacist in Charge at the Cottage Hospital, Ikot-Ekpaw, Ikot Abasi L.G.A., Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria and an Account Clerk (January-December 1977), Council of Legal Education, Nigerian Law School, Lagos.
Currently, he is the Chairman, UHAS Examination Malpractice Committee. He is the immediate past Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy, OAU, Ife, a past Dean, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Uyo (Uniyo), Uyo, Nigeria, and was also Chairman of important Ife University Committees, including Vice-Chairman, University Ceremonials Committee that is responsible for planning University Convocation Ceremonies. Severally, he had been the Head, Department of Pharmacognosy, OAU, Ife as well as Head in the Department of Pharmacognosy & Traditional Medicine, Delta State University, Abraka, Department of Pharmacognosy & Natural Medicine, Uniyo, Uyo, and Department of Pharmacognosy, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Sagamu, all in Nigeria, as well as an Editor-In-Chief (2011–2017), Ife Journal of Science and Technology, among many others.
He is an External Assessor for Readership and Professorship PFQ cases in some Nigerian Universities, External Examiner at both under- and post-graduate levels in Pharmacognosy Departments of other Nigerian Faculties of Pharmacy, a reviewer to many international and national journals and twice a member of the Pharmacists Council of Nigeria (PCN). He was member of seven PCN and Nigerian University Commission (NUC) Accreditations’ Panels that accredited B.Pharm. Degree programmes of Nigerian Universities and a recipient of foreign scholarship and senior post-doctoral fellowship to conduct researches abroad.
Research Interest and Output
He has contributed to the subject of Pharmacognosy by taking part in teaching all her under- and post-graduate courses in some Nigerian Universities, conducted researches in the fields of evaluation of ethnomedical claims of natural products, phytochemistry of Nigerian and Asian medicinal plants, identification of the active larvicidal, anti-diabetic, anti-malarial, anti-trichomonal, anti-trypanosomal and other anti-infective agents. New (novel) compounds were isolated, and antidiabetic constituents of some Nigerian and Asian ethnomedicinal plants, as well as their mechanisms of action were established, and for the first time, factors for prospecting plant larvicides. Derivatives of the novel compounds were prepared and Structure-Activity-Relationships between the isolates and derivatised compounds were given, while other constituents isolated provided templates for anti-diabetic drugs.
He has graduated two Ph.D. and twelve M.Sc./M.Phil. graduates, has 42 peer reviewed journal articles, 32 published conference abstracts, been guest speaker at international and regional conferences with many oral presentations in these research areas. He was a member of the Scientific Committee of the 61st Annual Congress of the Society for Medicinal Plants and Natural Product Research (Gesellschaft für Arzneipflanzenforschung), past Chairman of Ife Chapter of Nigerian Association of Pharmacists in Academia (NAPA), past Secretary General of Nigerian Society of Pharmacognosy (NSP), and member of Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN), Gesellschaft für Arzneipflanzenforschung (GA) and ResNet for Natural Products against Neglected Diseases (ResNet NPND). He loves mentoring the younger generation, writing academic papers and jogs in his spare time.
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