Staff

Dr. (Mrs.) Bilqis Abiola LAWAL 

Dr. (Mrs.) Bilqis Abiola LAWAL 

Post
Senior Lecturer
Department
Pharmacognosy & Drug Development
Email
lawal.ba@unilorin.edu.ng
Office Address
Room 01, First Floor 1, Main Administrative Building, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Ilorin
Teaching and Research Area
Pharmacognosy, Drug Development, Ethnomedicine, Natural Product Chemistry, Bioactivity of medicinal plants

Qualifications

  • Ph.D Pharmacognosy (University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria)
  • M.Sc Pharmacognosy (University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria)
  • B. Pharm (Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria)

Professional Affiliations

  • Member, Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN)
  • Member, Nigerian Association of Pharmacists' in Academia (NAPA)
  • Member, Nigeria Society of Pharmacognosy (NSP)
  • Member, International Society of Neurochemistry (ISN)

Research Affiliations

  • Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Assuit University, Egypt
  • Journal of Ethnopharmacology, Elsevier
  • Pharmaceutical Society of Kenya, Kenya
  • Pharmacognosy Journal, EManuscript Technologies
  • Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Ilorin, Nigeria
  • Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Benin, Nigeria.
  • Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Jos, Nigeria
  • West Africa Postgraduate College of Pharmacy
  • Nigerian Association of Pharmacists in Academia
  • Faculty of Applied Sciences, Ibrahim Babangida University, Lapai.
  • University of Nigeria, Nsukka
  • Nigerian Society of Pharmacognosy
  • Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria

Undergraduate Teaching

  • Principles of Seperation and Chromatographic Techniques
  • Application of Extraction, Isolation and Analysis of the active phytochemicals
  • Development of new drug from plants
  • Screening and evaluating new plant constituents
  • Biosynthesis of drugs of natural origin
  • Nigeria Herbal Medicine and Practices
  • Chemotaxonomy of Medicinal Plants

Postgraduate Teaching

  • Traditional Medicine and Medicinal Plants
  • Ethnopharmacology

Research Interest

  • Ethnomedicine
  • Phytochemistry
  • Structural elucidation and characterization
  • Biological activities of medicinal plants
  • Traditional/Herbal medicine