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Dr Saheed Sabiu
Department of Biotechnology and Food Science
Faculty of Applied Sciences
Saheed Sabiu is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Biotechnology and Food Science, where he leads the Computational Drug Discovery and Development Research Group.
The group bioprospects for secondary metabolites against degenerative and microbial diseases for new small molecule targets discovery. He is also interested in the molecular dynamics of enteric and respiratory viruses using whole-genome sequencing, in silico and metagenomic approaches. He has significant scholarly publications to his credit and enjoys good citations. Dr. Sabiu is an Academic Editor for three accredited
journals, reviews bursary and scholarship applications for the National Research Foundation (NRF) and actively reviews for more than 20 good journals in his field. His research has attracted funding from NRF and the South African Medical Research Council. Dr. Sabiu is a current Fellow of the Future Professors Program of the DHET and holds NRFY-rating as an emerging young researcher.
“He has significant scholarly publications to his credit and enjoys good citations.”
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