
UPDATE: NIGERIAN BORN FEMALE PROF NAMED CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT
Ijeoma Uchegbu, a Nigerian-born professor of pharmaceutical nanoscience, has been named the seventh president of Wolfson College, one of the University of Cambridge’s constituent colleges.
She will take over as president on October 1, 2024, replacing outgoing President Jane Clarke, according to the organisation.
Professor Uchegbu is a native of south-east Nigeria and Hackney. He is currently employed at University College London as a Professor of Pharmaceutical Neuroscience.
She attended the University of Benin to begin her pharmacy studies in 1981 and the University of Lagos to complete her master’s degree.
She ran into infrastructure problems in Nigeria and was unable to complete her dissertation.
Uchegbu ran into infrastructure problems in Nigeria and was unable to complete her dissertation.
She returned to the UK and pursued postgraduate studies at the University of London, where she was supervised by Alexander (Sandy) Florence, the dean of the school of pharmacy, resulting in a PhD in 1997.
She then worked from 2002 to 2004 as a lecturer at the University of Strathclyde.
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