Dr Joseph Senu Ashidi is a graduate of in Botany who upon successful completion of his Master’s degree in Pharmacognosy at the University of Ibadan, won the prestigious Commonwealth Scholarship to pursue a Ph.D in Pharmacy at King’s College London. He is also a recipient of Commonwealth Fellowship in 2013. His research combines knowledge of the local us of medicinal plants to laboratory and field studies to discovery of new medicine from plants and animals. His current research projects are in the arrears of cancer, diabetes and infection drug discovery and fertility control with plants. His research efforts birth lots of collaboration network that span Africa, North America, Europe and Asia. He is a member of many professional bodies; both local and international. He supervises Postgraduate research work in Plant Science especially in the areas of Ethnobotany, Pharmaceutical Botany and Medicinal Plants and related fields He was the immediate past Ag. Head of Pre-degree studies Unit of the Centre for Continuing Education (CCED) of the University, a position he held with remarkable difference. Dr Ashidi is currently the Acting Director of Research, Linkages and Advancement for the University.

Commonwealth Scholarship 2004; Commonwealth Fellowship 2013; Lightfoot Fellowship King’s College London 2006; British Pharmaceutical Society and Academy of Pharmaceutical Science of Great Britain 2006