Chinedum Babalola Explained

Honorific Prefix:Professor
Chinedum Peace Babalola
Honorific Suffix:FAAS, FAS
Birth Name:Chinedum Peace Anyabuike
Nationality:Nigerian
Alma Mater:Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife
Occupation:Pharmacist
Academics
Educational administrator
Years Active:1980–present
Known For:Pharmacy
Pharmacokinetics
Pharmacodynamics
PK/PD
Module:Voice Note
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Chinedum Peace Babalola (Anyabuike), is a Nigerian Professor of Pharmaceutical chemistry and Pharmacokinetics. She is a Professor of Pharmacy in the University of Ibadan, FAS, and FAAS.[1] She is the incumbent Vice Chancellor of Chrisland University, Nigeria.

Background

Education

Chinedum Anyabuike obtained a Bachelor of Pharmacy (B.Pharm.) degree in 1983, Master of Science in Pharmaceutical Chemistry in 1987 and a Doctor of Philosophy in Pharmaceutical Chemistry (Pharmacokinetics option) in 1997 from the University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University. She won the World Bank/NUC scholarship for staff training and completed her pre-doctoral fellowship at the University of British Columbia between 1994 and 1995.[2]

In 2012, Chinedum obtained a postgraduate Diploma in Industrial Pharmacy Advanced training (IPAT) jointly issued by Kilimanjaro School of Pharmacy, Tanzania and Purdue University, USA.[3]

Career

Babalola started her academic career as a Junior Trainee/Graduate Assistant in the Obafemi Awolowo University in 1985. In 1994, she moved to the University of British Columbia to complete a pre-doctoral fellowship. She rose to Lecturer I in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry Obafemi Awolowo University before joining the University of Ibadan as a Senior Lecturer in 1998. Babalola became the University of Ibadan's first female Professor of Pharmacy in October 2006.[4]

Prior to her appointment as the Vice Chancellor of Chrisland University, she served as the first female Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy University of Ibadan (2013-2017), and as an adjunct Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Olabisi Onabanjo University. She was a two-term Director of General Studies (2005-2010)[5] University of Ibadan. She is the first pharmacist to be appointed as a specialist adviser and consultant in a Nigerian hospital – University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan.

Research Interest and career

Babalola's research has been focused on ethics of human research, pharmacogenetics, clinical trials, drug interaction PK/PD, and non-communicable diseases (Sickle cell disease and cancer). She developed a novel High-performance liquid chromatography method for the analysis of quinine in biometrics. This novel method quinine analysis led to the elucidation of the pharmacokinetics of quinine in Africans and formed the basis of dose optimization in malaria patents. Her feasibility studies on drug interactions and metabolism suggest a decrease in bioavailability and bacterial activity of certain antibiotics when combined with some anti-malaria drugs.[6]

She is one of the scientists that reported the first pharmacogenetic study in healthy and sickle cell patients in Nigerians with proguanil as a probe. The report suggested that some Nigerians are carriers of mutant CYP2C19 genes and poor drug metabolizers.[7]

Since 2002, she has been an adjunct Researcher at the Institute of Advanced Medical Research and Training (IAMRAT) under Genetic & Bioethics Research Unit; College of Medicine, University of Ibadan. A unit she also headed from 2010–2012.

Babalola is a recipient of several fellowships, awards and grants. In 2011, she won the MacArthur Foundation Grant worth $950,000 (2012) for Higher Education Higher Education, with which she set up of the Centre for Drug Discovery Development and Production (CDDDP), in the University of Ibadan.[8] Currently, she is the Principal Investigator, on the USAID sponsored USP PQM+ project on promoting Quality of Medicines in LMIC in CDDDP, UI core-flex (a cooperative agreement - $160M Global).

Since she became a professor, she has supervised hundreds of undergraduate students and over 30 postgraduate students (PGD, MSC, M. Phil &PhD). She has over 150 scholarly articles in reputable academic journal as well as books, books chapter, conference abstracts and monograph.[9]

Awards and honours

Selected scholarly articles

Below are selected peer-reviewed scholarly publications by Professor Chinedum.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Babalola Peace Chinedum The AAS. www.aasciences.africa. 2020-05-25. 2021-05-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20210520084559/https://www.aasciences.africa/fellow/babalola-peace-chinedum. dead.
  2. Web site: Professor Chinedum Peace Babalola is our Personality of the Month. admin. 2017-11-27. Pharmanewsonline. en-GB. 2020-05-25.
  3. Web site: Professor Chinedum Peace Babalola is our Personality of the Month 2003 while in 2006 she was confirmed full professor.. Admin. 27 November 2017 . Pharmacy Heath cast. 15 June 2018.
  4. Web site: 'Drugs are poisons' ~ Prof. Babalola, Dean Faculty Of Pharmacy UI. swankpharm.com. October 12, 2015. May 4, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160504085159/http://www.swankpharm.com/2014/12/18/drugs-are-poisons-prof-babalola-dean-faculty-of-pharmacy-ui/. dead.
  5. Web site: UI pharmacy faculty marks White Coat Ceremony . Pharmanews. July 2015 . October 12, 2015.
  6. Web site: Professor Babalola Chinedum Peace. African Academy of Science. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304064807/http://www.aasciences.org/index.php/nigeria/288-babalola-chinedum-peace-prof-ms. March 4, 2016. October 12, 2015.
  7. Web site: Pharmacist tasks colleagues on professionalism. Vanguard News. 22 August 2011 . October 12, 2015.
  8. Web site: Centres of Excellence(Chinedum Peace BABALOLA). macarthur.ui.edu.ng. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304041246/http://macarthur.ui.edu.ng/chinedumpeaceba. 2016-03-04. October 12, 2015.
  9. Web site: Breaking the Yoke of Patriarchy: Nigerian Women in Governance (1914-2014). Bioreport.com. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150825061907/http://bioreports.net/news/breaking-the-yoke-of-patriarchy-nigerian-women-in-the-various-professions-politics-and-governance-1914-2014-by-siyan-oyeweso/. August 25, 2015. October 12, 2015.
  10. Web site: Africa's Top Scientists Awarded the Prestigious African Union Kwame Nkrumah Awards for Scientific Excellence (AUKNASE) 2019 Edition African Union. au.int. 2020-05-03.
  11. Web site: Nigeria Academy of Pharmacy(NAPharm) Annual General Meeting/ Investiture of New Fellows and Award Night. Medical World Nigeria. en. 2020-05-30.
  12. Web site: UI first Professor of Pharmacy becomes Chrisland varsity V-C. 2017-11-15. Vanguard News. en-US. 30 May 2020.
  13. Web site: News on Members The Nigerian Academy of Science. November 2017 . en-US. 2020-05-30.
  14. Web site: Profile. ipan.gov.ng. 30 May 2020.
  15. Adejumo. O.. Kotila. T.. Falusi. A.. Silva. B.. Nwogu. J.. Fasinu. P.. Babalola. C.. 2016-01-01. Phenotyping and genotyping of CYP2C19 using comparative metabolism of proguanil in sickle-cell disease patients and healthy controls in Nigeria. Pharmacology Research & Perspectives. 4. 5. e00252 . 10.1002/prp2.252. 27713823. 5045938 . free.

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