Professor Fatokun is currently a Full Professor of Pharmacology and Neuroscience at Liverpool John Moores University, UK.He obtained a Bachelor of Pharmacy Degree (with Distinction) from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria, before studying for a PhD in pharmacology and neuroscience at the University of Glasgow, UK, which he completed under 3 years, and the thesis passed without any corrections and won several awards, including the runner-up (close second) prize for the best PhD in neuroscience in the UK in 2006.Professor Fatokun undertook postdoctoral research through four competitive, international research fellowships, in unbroken succession. Through the American Heart Association (AHA) Fellowship, he worked at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA, after which he was awarded an International Visiting Research Fellowship by the University of Sydney, Australia, before taking up an EU Marie Curie Fellowship and a Nottingham Advanced Research Fellowship at the University of Nottingham, UK. His research focuses on using the knowledge of cellular and molecular mechanisms of diseases to design novel therapeutics. He has published nearly 60 full-length articles and supervised several PhD students and postdocs. He is a Fellow of the British Pharmacological Society and the Royal Society of Chemistry.
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Website: https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/about-us/staff-profiles/faculty-of-science/pharmacy-and-biomolecular
