The Nigeria Academy of Pharmacy will today induct six professionals into its esteemed ranks.
A statement from the academy quoted Professor Fola Tayo, Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of the Governing Council of Caleb University, who also doubles as General Secretary of the Academy, as saying the event will also be headlined by a keynote presentation by Professor Isa Marte Hussaini.
Tayo said cancer is a chronic disease condition for which the scientific community is still grappling with the need to better understand in order to proffer more effective preventive, management and curative approaches.
“Professor Hussaini’s work is a tribute to academic excellence and apart from informing society about the progress he has made so far, we also want to inspire the rest of the scientific community and keep the quest for research into problems that afflict mankind, on the front-burner,” he added.
The six eminent professionals who are billed to be inducted into the academy have been selected from a diverse pool of practice areas. “Beyond the fact that they are distinguished in their various practice areas,” said Tayo, “each inductee possesses a mindset and disposition that align with the Academy’s mission and reason for being.”
The works of Hussaini, who is a world-renowned cancer researcher and Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Maiduguri, is particularly hallmarked by its focus on the use of local herbs in cancer therapy.
The Academy is the fifth such specialized academies in Nigeria, with others being the Academies of Science, Letters, Arts and Engineering respectively.
