About

Professional Summary

First-Class Honours graduate (2024) in Pharmacology from Sa’adu Zungur University (formerly Bauchi State University Gadau), Bauchi State, Nigeria. I work as a general pharmacologist, applying experimental and computational methods to problems spanning computer-aided drug design (CADD), neuropharmacology, immunopharmacology, and environmental toxicology.

My research experience spans laboratory-based, computational, and community/hospital work. The methods I use (network pharmacology, molecular docking, ethnobotany, behavioural assays, HPLC, and epidemiological surveys) transfer readily across therapeutic areas. I am particularly interested in the interactions between drugs, the immune system, neurological disorders, and environmental toxicology, and in improving the quality of medicines and standards of care.

Research Focus

Drug Discovery and Development

Target identification, QSAR modelling, virtual screening, pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics, and characterisation of plant-derived bioactive compounds.

Environmental Toxicology

Toxicology of environmental exposures, medicines quality, antimicrobial resistance, and public-health pharmacology.

Cancer Chemotherapy

Network pharmacology and molecular docking studies of natural products against cancer targets, resistance-mechanism analysis, and combination immunotherapy research.

Neuropharmacology

Brain energy metabolism, glucose transport in neurodegeneration, and behavioural evaluation of anxiolytic activity.

Immunopharmacology

Innate and adaptive immunity, vaccines, cytokines, and host-pathogen pharmacology.

Bioinformatics

Sequence analysis, chromatogram interpretation, network pharmacology-based target and pathway mapping, and computational data mining in support of drug discovery.

Methods & Tools

• Network pharmacology and systems biology: Cytoscape
• Molecular docking and virtual screening: PyRx, Schrödinger Maestro
• Molecular visualisation and structure analysis: PyMOL, ChimeraX, BIOVIA Discovery Studio
• Quantum chemical calculations (DFT): Gaussian
• Ethnobotanical and phytochemical investigation
• Behavioural pharmacology assays
• High-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)
• Epidemiological survey design and analysis
• Statistical analysis: SPSS

Laboratory and Molecular Biology Skills

• DNA extraction
• RNA extraction
• cDNA synthesis
• Pipetting techniques
• Chromatogram interpretation and mutation detection
• Primer design
• Gel electrophoresis
• Basic bioinformatics
• Sanger sequencing analysis
• PCR and qPCR techniques

Education

B.Sc. Pharmacology, First Class Honours, CGPA 4.79/5.00

Sa’adu Zungur University Gadau (formerly Bauchi State University Gadau), Bauchi State, Nigeria, 2024

Leadership, volunteer experience, honours, and professional training are listed on the Curriculum Vitae. Community outreach is also collected under Volunteer.