Meet ANJORIN ABDULAZEEZ ADEYEMI, an Academic Staff of Lagos State University.
Dr
SENIOR LECTURER
Microbiology
Ground floor, New building, Faculty of Science
10:00 am to 4:00 pm
| # | Certificate | School | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PhD Medical Microbiology (Virology) | University of Lagos | 2020 |
| 2 | MSc Medical Microbiology (Virology) | University of Lagos | 2011 |
| 3 | BSc Microbiology | Lagos State University | 2008 |
| 4 | HND SLT (Microbiology) | Yaba College of Technology | 2004 |
https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=oPx9wyYAAAAJ&hl=en
Dr. Anjorin, A. Abdul-Azeez is a Senior Lecturer and promising young Virologist with problem solving skills and passion for novel discovery and research excellence. He is the Team Lead, Influenza & Other Respiratory Tract Viruses (IORTV) research, Department of Microbiology, Lagos State University. He was recently appointed an Associate Editor and Secretary, Editorial Board of the Faculty- Journal of Research and Review in Science (https://jrrslasu.com/people.php).
Dr. Anjorin has won local and international Scholarships. He was the resource person for the International webinar (2020) organised by the Post-Graduate & Research Department of Zoology & IQAC, Sree Narayana College, Kannur, India. His public health enlightenment on COVID-19 was widely read in the Business Day special interview and recommendations to the Nigerian Presidential Task Force https://businessday.ng/interview/article/pandemic-viruses-usually-spread-for-about-6-to-18-months-anjorin/. He was a Guest speaker at the Lagos University Medical Society 2019 Scientific Conference on Emerging and Re-emerging Infections. In 2018, he was invited to the Centenary World Influenza Conference 2018 in Beijing, China. He received the Lagos State University Vice-Chancellor Commendation in 2017. Abdul-Azeez was awarded the 6th European Scientific Working group on Influenza (ESWI) Young Scientist grant to Riga, Latvia in 2017. He was the Channels Television- Health matters Special Guest on Avian Influenza virus in Nigeria in 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZt3Gvxo4Ck&index=2&list=WL. The Institute of Immunology, Centre de Recherche Public (CRP) de la Santé / Laboratoire National de Santé (now Luxembourg Institute of Health), Grand Duchy of Luxembourg in 2014 invited and awarded him training fellowship for deserving Scientists from a developing country, where he was trained on Molecular Virology of Influenza virus; attended the 17th SAAR-LOR-LUX Workshop on Virology Research at The University of Lorraine, France, and visited the University of Trier, Germany. He was a Federal Government of Nigeria TETFUND PhD Scholar, 2014; University of Lagos Muslim Alumni PhD Scholar, 2013; He won the Master of Science (M.Sc.) Scholarship awarded by Lagos State Government, 2010 and the Lagos State Scholarship Awards (2007, 2006, 2005, 2000 and 1999); Otunba Fola Ogunnowo Memorial Trust Award Imota (2006) and the Buba Marwa Scholarship Grant in Nigeria (2004/05).
He has published in local & international journals including Tropical Medicine and International Health, Le Infezioni in Medicina, AJLM, PAMJ and Journal of the Pan African Thoracic Society, and served as a reviewer for Elsevier, Springer-Nature, Journal of Medical Virology & British Medical Journal. He is a member of the International Society for Infectious Diseases (ISID), World Association for Infectious Diseases & Immunological Disorders (WAIDID), World Society for Virology (WSV), American Society for Microbiology (ASM), African Virology, African Society for Laboratory Medicine (ASLM), Nigerian Virology & the Nigerian Society for Microbiology.
