Staff

Dr. Francis Alfred Unuagbe ATTAH

Dr. Francis Alfred Unuagbe ATTAH

Post
Head of Department
Department
Pharmacognosy & Drug Development
Email
attah.fau@unilorin.edu.ng
Office Address
Room 75, First Floor, Main Administrative Building, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Ilorin
Teaching and Research Area
Teaching area: Phytochemistry, chemosystematics, Traditional Medicine and Crude standardization. Research area: Cysteine-rich peptide (knottins) discovery from Traditional plants; Plant bioinformatics, Drug Discovery and ethnopharmacology

Qualifications

  • Ph.D. (Pharmacognosy, University of Ibadan, Nigeria), 2016
  • M.Sc. (Pharmacognosy, Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Nigeria), 2009
  • B.Sc. (Biochemistry, University of Ilorin, Nigeria), 2003

Professional Affiliations

  • The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
  • The Nigerian Society of Pharmacognosy (NSP)
  • The Society for Medicinal Plants and Natural Prodcut Research (GA)

Research Affiliations

  • Mass spectrometry Facility, Centre for Physiology and Pharmacology, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
  • School of Life Sciences and Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, United Kingdom
  • Biodiversity Conservation and Medicinal Plants Research Group, Department of Pharmacognosy, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
  • Phytotherapy Research Group, Department of Pharmacognosy, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

Undergraduate Teaching

  • PCG 511: Herbal, Complementary and other Alternative Medicines I
  • PCG 512: Herbal, Complementary and other Alternative Medicines II
  • PCG 412: Principles of phytochemistry, identification and isolation of chemical constituents
  • PCG 312: Standardization and evaluation of crude drugs

Postgraduate Teaching

  • PCL 810: Ethnopharmacology
  • PCG 801: Traditional Medicine and Medicinal Plants

Research Interest

  • African Traditional Medicine
  • Molecular Pharmacognosy, phytochemistry and Drug Discovery
  • Plant peptidomics
  • Maternal and child Health