IFEOLUWA OLADAPO

A conscientious budding scientist who is enthusiastic about advancing public health and improving global health through cutting-edge research on infectious diseases and immunology. I am interested in elucidating the intricate interplay between pathogens and their hosts. My overarching objective is to leverage this knowledge to pioneer the development of advanced drugs, vaccines, and therapeutics for the treatment of diseases.

• Wrote grant application leading to $780,000 award.
• Wrote grant application leading to £5,000 award.
• Won a research award by the Brazilian government (CAPES)
• Published over 5 article publications

• 2021: Essentials of Grant Proposal Development, West African Bioethics Training program
• 2021: Nigerian National Code for Health Research Ethics, West African Bioethics Training program
• 2020: Diploma in Occupational Hygiene, Allison Educational Management
• 2020: Introduction to Immunology Certification Course, Allison Educational Management

• 2016: Special Adviser, SSA to the Honorable Minister of Agriculture, Assisted in her official duties and scheduling her meeting with other relevant stakeholders as well as keeping her diaries.
• 2017-2019: August Girls’ Assembly, I mentored teenage girls on self-esteem, sex education, and career
• 2020: Assistant Team lead, Research Department, EHA CLINICS, Participated in and coordinated the research design, grant writing, and application as well as representing the department to meet with relevant stakeholders.
• 2021: Team lead, From mud to lotus

• 2020: Best Graduating Student (Distinction), Parasitology Unit, Department of Zoology, University of Ibadan
• 2020: Best Student in Physiology and Biochemistry of Parasites
• 2015: Prof. Mark Nwagu Prize to the Best Student in Genetics (100, 200, and 300 level), Department of Zoology, University of Ibadan
• 2022: CAPES, Brazilian government research award
• 2022: RSTMH, early career research grant

• 2017: August Girls' Assembly, I mentored teenage girls on self-esteem, sex education, and career.
• 2017: December 2 Remember, I was involved in organizing a December trip to the orphanage home where we had a Christmas party with the children and taught them some handcrafts.
• 2018: Volunteer, University of Ibadan Department of Zoology Conference, Registered invited guests and distributed their tags at the registration area.
• 2020:Volunteer, Fashioned and Made for Excellence (FAME), Contributed to training public secondary school students in Ibadan on leadership and career
• 2020: Street Library, I was involved in organizing a street library for the destitute street kids during the pandemic., I was involved in designing quantitative and verbal reasoning sums for the kids to keep them on track while schools were shut due to the pandemic.

• Epidemic Intelligence and Surveillance role in predicting and managing epidemics in Africa (2022)
• FAIS Immunology Conference (Poster presentation, 2021)
• International Meeting on Emerging Diseases and Surveillance (Poster Presentation, 2021)
• Biodiversity Genomics Conference (Virtual, 2021)
• Inaugural Toxicology Conference (FONTOX-1) (Ibadan, 2020)
• Labroots, Looking Beyond PCR: Isothermal Amplification (Virtual, 2020)
• Forensic Entomology in Medico-Legal Investigations (Virtual, 2020)