Babalola Chinedum Peace

Professor
Babalola Chinedum Peace
FAAS, FAS
Residence Ibadan
Nationality Nigerian
Citizenship Nigeria
Alma mater Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife
Occupation Pharmacist
Academics
Educational administrator
Years active 1980 - present
Known for Pharmacy
Pharmacokinetics
Pharmacodynamics
PK/PD
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Babalola Chinedum Peace (née Anyabuike) FAS, FAAS is a Nigerian Professor of Pharmacy and first female pharmacist professor of the University of Ibadan. Her research interest focus on drug analysis, PK/PD pharmacogenetics, pharmacogenomics, pharmaceutical analysis and bioethics.

She is the dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy and principal investigator of the University of Ibadan Centre for Drug discovery, development and production.[1]

She developed a novel High-performance liquid chromatography method for the analysis of quinine in biometrics. This novel method quinine analysis led to the elucidation of the pharmacokinetics of quinine in Africans and formed the basis of dose optimization in malaria patents.

Her feasibility studies on drug interactions and metabolism suggest a decrease in bioavailability and bacterial activity of certain antibiotics when combined with some anti-malaria drugs.[2]

She is one of the scientists that reported the first pharmacogenetic study in healthy and sickle cell patients in Nigerians with pro-guanil as a probe. The report suggested that some Nigerians are carriers of mutant CYP2C19 genes and poor drug metabolizer.[3]

In November 2017, she was appointed the Vice Chancellor of Chrisland University, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria.[4]

Background

Education

Chinedum obtained a Bachelor of Pharmacy (B.Pharm.) degree in 1983 from the University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University. At the same university she received her M.sc. in 1987 and doctorate degree (Ph.D.) in Pharmaceutical Chemistry (Pharmacokinetics option) in 1997. Between 1994 and 1995, she completed her pre-doctoral fellowship at the University of British Columbia[5]

The award of Advanced Industrial Pharmacy Training (IPAT)to was jointly issued to her from Kilimanjaro School of Pharmacy, Tanzania and Purdue University, USA.[6]

Career

She joined the University of Ibadan as a senior lecturer in 1998, a year after she received her Ph.D. from Obafemi Awolowo University. She was formerly an academic staff at Obafemi Awolowo University before she was transferred to the University of Ibadan where she became a Professor and first female Pharmacist Professor on October 2006.[7]

She was two-term Head of Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry before her appointment as Dean of the faculty of Pharmacy and the first female substantive Dean of the faculty. prior to her appointment, she served as Director of General Studies for 5 years (2005 - 2010).[8]

Chinedum is a receiver of several fellowship awards. She is a fellow of the African Academy of Sciences, the apex academic organization in Africa. She was inducted into the academy in 2013.

She became registered as pharmacist and public analyst in the year 1984 and 2011 respectively. Babalola bagged her associate professorship in the year 3.[6]

In 2011, she was elected as fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science. She is the first female pharmacist in Nigeria to be elected into the academy and was inducted along with the Late Professor Babatunde Adetokunbo Sofoluwe, a professor of mathematics and former vice chancellor of the University of Lagos and Muhammed K. Abubakar, a Professor of Biochemistry and former Federal Minister of Science and Technology.[9]

She is one of the fellows selected for African diaspora initiative. She was selected with Dr. Adeboye Adejare of the University of the Sciences in Pennsylvania to conduct a research on the interaction between compounds and small endogenous compounds that can serve as targets for drug action.

She is the first pharmacist to be appointed as a specialist adviser and consultant in a Nigerian hospital – University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan. She is also an adjunct Professor In Institute of Advanced Medical Research and Training (IAMRAT) College of Medicine, UI where she collaborates with several oth er medical researchers within and outside Nigeria. She is a Co-PI on NIH-Fogarty grants with University of Chicago.[10]

She is a receiver of several grants, including the German Academic Exchange Service, World Bank and MacArthur Grant. In 2011, she won a $1 million MacArthur Foundation Grant to set up a Centre for Drug Discovery, Development and Production (CDDDP) called centre of excellence at the University of Ibadan.[11]

Works

Since she became a professor, she has supervised hundreds of undergraduate students and over 30 postgraduate students (PGD, MSC, M. Phil &PhD). She had published over 120 scholarly articles in reputable academic journal as well as books, books chapter, conference abstracts and monograph.[12]

Selected scholarly articles

Below are selected peer-reviewed scholarly articles publications by Professor Chinedum.

  • Babalola CP; et al. (2013). A Novel Derivatization Ultraviolet Spectrophotometric Method for the Determination of Dihydroartemisinin Using P-Nitroaniline' Tropical Journal of Pharmaceutical Research (in press)
  • Ong CT; et al. (2005). Penetration, intracellular accumulation and efflux of tigecycline in human polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMNs). Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 56:498-501.
  • Babalola CP; et al. (2013) Toxicological Effect of SubTherapeutic, Therapeutic andOverdose regimens of Halofantrine Hydrochloride on Male Albino Rats. Pharmacologia 4 (3): 180-185, 2013
  • Babalola, CP. ; et al. (2010). Cytochrome P450 CYP2C19 genotypes in sickle cell disease patients and normal controls. Journal of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics. 35:471-477
  • Babalola CP; et al. (2009) Effect of fluconazole on the pharmacokinetics of halofantrine in healthy volunteers. Journal of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics. 34:677-682
  • Maglio D et al. (2005). Pharmacodynamic profile of ertapenem against Klebsiella pneumoniae and Escherichia coli in a murine thigh model. Journal of Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 49(1):276-280.
  • Babalola CP; et al. (2002). Effect of proguanil interaction on bioavailability of cloxacillin. Journal of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics, 27: 461-464
  • Babalola CP; et al. (2004) Synergistic activity of vancomycin and teicoplanin alone and in combination with streptomycin against Enterococci faecalis with various vancomycin susceptibilities. International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents 23: 343-348
  • Babalola CP; et al. (2004). Comparative bioavailability study of a new quinine suppository and oral quinine in healthy volunteers. Tropical Journal of Pharmaceutical Research. 3(1): 291-297
  • Babalola CP; et al. (2004) Adjunctive efficacy of G-CSF on treatment of Pseudomonas aeruginosa pneumonia in neutropenic and non-neutropenic hosts. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 53(6):1098-1100.
  • Babalola CP; et al. (2004) Bioavailability and bioequivalence (BA/BE) assessment. Towards Better Quality Assurance of Drugs in the 3rd …, 2004 Pg 79
  • Babalola CP; et al (2006) Analysis of the antimalarial drug halofantrine and its major metabolite N-desbutylhalofantrine in human plasma by high performance liquid chromatography- Journal of pharmaceutical and biomedical analysis, 2006 Cited by 10 Related articles All 6 versions
  • Babalola CP; et al (2012) Herbal clinical trials—historical development and application in the 21st Century- Pharmacologia, 2012(2012 Cited by 10 Related articles
  • Babalola CP; et al( 2003) Liquid chromatographic determination of pyronaridine in human plasma and oral dosage form- Journal of Chromatography B, Cited by 16 Related articles All 6 versions
  • Babalola CP; et al (2011) Medical Herbalism and Herbal Clinical Research: A Global Perspective.
  • Babalola CP; et al (2002) Polymorphic oxidative metabolism of proguanil in a Nigerian population - European journal of clinical pharmacology, Cited by 19 Related articles All 9 versions
  • Babalola CP; et al (2011) Evaluation of prescription pattern in Osun state (Southwest) Nigeria- Journal of Public Health and Epidemiology,Cited by 39 Related articles All 4 versions

References

  1. ↑ "When UI faculty celebrated 30th year anniversary". Daily Independent. Retrieved October 12, 2015.
  2. ↑ "Professor Babalola Chinedum Peace". African Academy of Science. Retrieved October 12, 2015.
  3. ↑ "Pharmacist tasks colleagues on professionalism". Vanguard News. Retrieved October 12, 2015.
  4. ↑ https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/11/ui-first-professor-pharmacy-becomes-chrisland-varsity-v-c/
  5. ↑ "Dean's Profile". Retrieved October 12, 2015.
  6. 1 2 Admin. "Professor Chinedum Peace Babalola is our Personality of the Month 2003 while in 2006 she was confirmed full professor". Pharmacy Heath cast. Retrieved 15 June 2018.
  7. ↑ "'Drugs are poisons' ~ Prof. Babalola, Dean Faculty Of Pharmacy UI". swankpharm.com. Retrieved October 12, 2015.
  8. ↑ "UI pharmacy faculty marks White Coat Ceremony". Pharmanews. Retrieved October 12, 2015.
  9. ↑ "Fellows of the academy". www.nas.org.ng. Archived from the original on November 9, 2015. Retrieved October 12, 2015.
  10. ↑ "First fellows selected for African diaspora initiative". University World News. Retrieved October 13, 2015.
  11. ↑ "Centres of Excellence(Chinedum Peace BABALOLA )". macarthur.ui.edu.ng. Retrieved October 12, 2015.
  12. ↑ "BREAKING THE YOKE OF PATRIARCHY: NIGERIAN WOMEN IN In Governance (1914-2014)". Bioreport.com. Retrieved October 12, 2015.
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