Mojisola Adeyeye was appointed the Director-General of National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control on 3 November 2017 by the President of The Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari.
19 Facts About Mojisola Adeyeye
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Mojisola Adeyeye was a Professor of Pharmaceutics and Manufacturing for 21 years at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
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Mojisola Adeyeye is Senior Fulbright Scholar and Specialist and 2008 American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists Fellow.
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Mojisola Adeyeye is a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science and Nigeria Academy of Pharmacy.
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Mojisola Adeyeye is the founder and President of Elim Pediatric Pharmaceuticals Rolling Meadows, Illinois.
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Moji Adeyeye attended the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, obtaining a bachelor's degree in Pharmaceutics in 1976.
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Moji Mojisola Adeyeye started her career as a pharmacist at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria, in 1976 and remained there till 1979.
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Mojisola Adeyeye proceeded to head the Pharmacy department at the Baptist Hospital, Ogbomoso, Oyo State, Nigeria from 1979 to 1980.
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Mojisola Adeyeye started her academic career in 1988 as an assistant professor at the School of Pharmacy, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan and proceeded to Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as an assistant professor in 1989 and was promoted to the rank of associate professor in 1994 in the same institution.
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Mojisola Adeyeye was the Chair, Department of Biopharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Roosevelt University from 2010 to 2017.
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Mojisola Adeyeye is president, Drugs for AIDS and HIV Patients, a position she has held since 2004.
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Mojisola Adeyeye has 5 patents, 55 peer-reviewed manuscripts, book chapters and books, and more than 140 scientific presentations.
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On November 11,2017, Mojisola Adeyeye was named the Director general of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, taking over from Ademola Andrew Magbojuri.
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Mojisola Adeyeye was awarded the J William Fulbright Scholar Award for African Regional Research Program on AIDS and AIDS-Related Research from 2004 to 2005.
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Mojisola Adeyeye became a Fellow of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists in 2008 and got a Recognition Service Award from the AAPS Manufacturing Science Engineering Section in 2011.
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Mojisola Adeyeye became an Academic Research Fellow of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy in 2015 and in 2016, she was made a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science.
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Mojisola Adeyeye is married to Senator Olusola Mojisola Adeyeye of Osun central and they have two daughters and a son together.
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Mojisola Adeyeye is the founder of Drugs for AIDS and AIDS patients, a not for profit organization in Nigeria.
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Mojisola Adeyeye is the founder of Sarah Extended Family Homes for Children, a home that caters for children from kindergarten up to university level.