Professor of Industrial Chemistry and the College’s Director of Tutorial Planning, Oluwafemi Ogunmodede, has secured 79 refined analysis and science gear objects price $298,104.71 (₦480.2 million) for the college from Seeding Labs.
ABUAD’s Director of Company Affairs, Tunde Olofintila, disclosed this in a Wednesday press launch, including that the college has taken supply of the state-of-the-art gear, which enhances earlier analysis grants gained by different researchers on the establishment.
Olofintila stated, “With this newest addition secured by Prof. Ogunmodede, the quantum of state-of-the-art analysis and science gear at ABUAD has reached a brand new top.
“Earlier grants embody these secured by Prof. Pius Okiki, Professor of Microbiology and the college’s Provost, School of Sciences, who obtained gear price $221,041.98 (₦356 million) in 2023, and Prof. Olusegun Adebayo AdeOluwa of the Division of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, School of Drugs and Well being Sciences, who utilized to Seeding Labs in January 2023.
“Following approval of AdeOluwa’s software, the college paid a counterpart fund of $27,800 and took supply of 53 refined analysis and science gear objects price ₦427.4 million on 30 July 2024.
“As well as, Dr Juliet Olayinka of the Division of Pharmacology, School of Drugs and Well being Sciences, gained an Observer 5 Microscope with Fluorescence and Digicam from the Africa Microscopy Initiative in November 2024. The microscope, valued at $80,000 (₦136 million), was delivered in April this yr,” Olofintila added.
ABUAD Founder, Aare Afe Babalola, congratulated the researchers for his or her efforts to accumulate the gear, praising their dedication to creating ABUAD an energetic participant within the World Financial institution’s three statutory features of a college: high quality educating, high quality analysis and high quality affect/engagement.
Babalola stated, “The newly acquired gear will enormously help the college, which has efficiently produced Virucidine (an immune system booster syrup), Natucadine (an anti-ageing natural complement), and AB-Mal (an anti-malaria capsule), in its analysis in Drugs, Pharmacy and the Sciences, amongst others.”
He emphasised that optimum deployment of the gear would assist preserve overseas alternate that will in any other case be spent on importing medication.
The ABUAD founder added, “I congratulate the college for standing out within the efficiency of those three duties stipulated by the World Financial institution. Our simple efficiency has been acknowledged globally.
“Within the newest Instances Greater Schooling Affect Rankings, our 15-year-old college was ranked No. 1 on this planet for SDG 7, No. 1 globally in Outreach with a rating of 98 per cent, No. 1 worldwide in Stewardship with a rating of 98.2 per cent, and No. 1 amongst all 264 federal, state and personal universities in Nigeria for 3 consecutive years — 2022, 2023 and 2024.”
Prof. Okiki, who, alongside Ogunmodede, confirmed the ABUAD founder across the gear on the Bogoro Drug Analysis Centre, praised Babalola for his “unwavering dedication to institutionalising high quality and purposeful schooling and for elevating a brand new technology of leaders for the reason that establishment started tutorial work on 4 January 2010.”
Okiki stated the newly acquired gear would improve hands-on coaching and analysis for employees and college students, significantly these in Drugs and Well being Sciences, Medical Laboratory Sciences, Nursing, the Sciences, Engineering, the burgeoning 124-unit ABUAD Industrial Analysis Park, and the ultra-modern 400-bed ABUAD Multi-System Hospital.
He added that the gear would get rid of the necessity for employees and college students to journey overseas to analyse samples and forestall medical and scientific samples from being despatched abroad for evaluation.
