Edo State University Professor Named 2024 Fellow of Nigeria Science Leadership Programme
Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry at Edo State University Uzairue, Edo State, Nigeria, Professor Usunobun Usunomena, has been meritoriously selected a 2024 Fellow of the prestigious Nigeria Science Leadership Programme (N-SLP).
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Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry at Edo State University Uzairue, Edo State, Nigeria, Professor Usunobun Usunomena, has been meritoriously selected a 2024 Fellow of the prestigious Nigeria Science Leadership Programme (N-SLP).
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In a letter announcing the selection, the Director, Africa Science Leadership Programme, Dr. Connie Nshemereirwe, congratulated Prof Usunobun Usunomena on the significant achievement.
“The programme received a large number of strong applications from across the country. Following two rounds of assessment by the Africa Science Leadership Programme (ASLP) and N-SLP coordinating teams, your application stood out,” Dr. Nshemereirwe said.
“We have an exciting group of fellows and look forward to engaging with you in this ground-breaking and transformative program,” she said in the letter dated 3 July 2024.
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Dr. Nshemereirwe further said the leadership workshop would take place at the University of Abuja, Nigeria’s federal capital, over three intensive days (August 16-20).
Professor Usunobun Usunomena, who became Nigeria’s youngest Professor of Biochemistry in January 2021, is an environmental and biochemical toxicologist with major interests in medicinal plants and natural products efficacy, safety and disease management, their mechanism of actions as well as isolation and characterization of chemical/bioactive principles in plants.
His research interests also include Molecular Biology, signal transduction, apoptosis, antioxidants, oxidative stress and free radicals in health and disease, molecular carcinogenesis and chemoprevention.
