Oluwatoyin Asojo is Associate Director for Inclusive Excellence at the Dartmouth Cancer Center.
20 Facts About Oluwatoyin Asojo
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Oluwatoyin Asojo was previously an associate professor and chair of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Hampton University and an associate professor of pediatrics-tropical medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine.
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Oluwatoyin Asojo is a crystallographer with an interest in the structural studies of proteins from neglected tropical disease pathogens.
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Oluwatoyin Asojo was born in Oyo State, Nigeria, and spent her early life at the University of Ibadan Campus.
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Oluwatoyin Asojo was a member of the Ibadan Poetry Club and volunteered at an orphanage while at school.
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Oluwatoyin Asojo's father was a chief laboratory scientist at the University of Ibadan.
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Oluwatoyin Asojo would spend several hours a week in the lab.
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Oluwatoyin Asojo attended the International School Ibadan and applied for a United World College scholarship that would allow her to study abroad, and was one of only seven from ~10,000 applicants to be selected.
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Oluwatoyin Asojo earned an International Baccalaureate diploma in 1989 from Pearson College UWC.
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In 1992, Oluwatoyin Asojo completed a dual degree at Trent University, majoring in chemistry and economics, followed by a BSc with honors in 1993 in chemistry.
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Oluwatoyin Asojo earned a PhD at the University of Houston in 1999.
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Oluwatoyin Asojo spent a year as a staff scientist at Tibotec in Rockville, Maryland.
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In 2003, Oluwatoyin Asojo joined the University of Nebraska Medical Center as an assistant professor.
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Oluwatoyin Asojo simultaneously managed the X-ray crystallography facility at Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer and Allied Diseases.
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Oluwatoyin Asojo was awarded two National Institutes of Health grants in 2005, studying alternative treatments to the hookworm infection.
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Oluwatoyin Asojo held an adjunct position at Olabisi Onabanjo University.
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Oluwatoyin Asojo serves at Dartmouth College and was previously at Hampton University in Hampton, VA, where she was an associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and Baylor College of Medicine, where her lab was dedicated to the production, purification and crystallization of proteins.
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Oluwatoyin Asojo coordinated summer research projects for disadvantaged high school students through the American Chemical Society Project SEED.
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Oluwatoyin Asojo won the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship in 2016.
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Since 2014, Oluwatoyin Asojo has been an editor for Nature's Scientific Reports and an associate editor specializing in crystallography for BMC Structural Biology.