Idayat Oyetoro grew up in Ibadan in a family of five children, all of whom have completed university. During the course of her undergraduate studies, she decided to pursue an area of research that had not yet been undertaken. “We discovered plants indigenous to Nigeria that help in the extraction of bullets from the body, as well as helping to heal other physical injuries,” she declares. “Before we conducted this work, we carried out an ethno-botanical survey to gather information about who is using these plants.” She has since begun a master’s degree in Pharmacognosy—a branch of pharmacy that deals with making drugs from natural sources—at the University of Ibadan, and she has already defended her thesis. Research Area Assessment of the efficacy of medicinal plants in wound healing for natural product research and development of alternate drug sources. Fellow's Details
University of Ibadan MSc
MSc Student
Medicinal plant research
Mentor Details
Adegoke Emmanuel Adegbite
Head, Biological Science Department Ondo State, University of Science and Technology
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Labels: Ethnobotanical Survey, Ibadan, Idayat Oyetoro, Pharmacognosy, University of Ibadan