Medical Safety & Global Health
Open Access

Ademola A Adenle

Biography

Ademola A. Adenle holds an M.Sc and PhD in Genetics and Molecular Toxicology from the University of Sussex and University of Nottingham, UK respectively. Dr. Adenle has published in several peer-reviewed international journals including book chapters. He has won prestigious awards including the best student prize for his PhD research presentation at the British Toxicology Society’s Annual Congress in Surrey, UK. He reviewed a paper on spaceflight which attracted interest from UK and US media, respectively. His current research at United Nations University-Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS) is based on the role of biotechnology in sustainable agriculture and climate change mitigation in developing countries, particularly in Africa. He has looked into procedures that lead to development of biosafety regulatory frameworks across different African countries including Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya. He is also a visiting scholar at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Tokyo, Japan.

Research Interest

Modern biotechnology
Biosafety regulatory framework
Climate change
Sustainable agriculture