Our Director

Dr. Kingsley Chukwuemeka Patrick-Iwuanyanwu is an Associate Professor of Nutritional Biochemistry /Toxicology. He is a scholar of the prestigious Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA in Analyzing risk: Principles, concepts and applications. Dr. Patrick-Iwuanyanwu is a recipient of The World Academy of Science- International Centre for Chemical and Biological Sciences (TWAS-ICCBS) PhD Fellowship award in 2009 to University of Karachi, Pakistan; He was among the selected 100 young scientists from around the world to attend The World Life Sciences Forum by BioVision (Lyon, France); He is a recipient of Society of Toxicology (SOT) /AstraZenecca IUTOX fellowship award in 2009; He is a member of the class of 2010 BioVision Alexandria.Nxt fellows in Alexandria, Egypt. He served as a Pioneer African representative and one of the founding Executive Members of Student Advisory Council (SAC) of Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC, EUROPE) from 2009-2011. He was also a pioneer member of the Scientific Organizing Committee of the SETAC EUROPE-sponsored 1st Young Environmental Scientists (YES) meeting at the University of Landau, Germany.

He is an Awardee of several Research Fellowship training organized by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in several areas of seafood safety including: Regional Training Course on Sampling Strategy PSP & CFP Toxin Extraction Techniques, RBA Demonstration and Data Analysis (C7-RAF-7.014-002/16.  IAEA/KMFRI; Mombasa, Kenya (2016); Regional Training Course on Harmful Algal Blooms (HAB): Biotoxin extraction and Ciguatoxin Analysis in Marine Food using Radioligand-Receptor Binding Assay (r-RBA), Agadir and Rabat, Morocco (2019).

Dr. Patrick-Iwuanyanwu is an author of several cited publications in peer–reviewed journals with research interests in the areas of Food safety, Risk assessments of toxicants and environmental pollutants in the food chain, Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) surveys, Risk Assessment of hydrocarbon contamination and water-soluble fraction of petroleum products and Exposure to contaminants and toxicological response of organisms at multiple tiers of biological organization (using experimental animal models) with a view to monitoring the source, fate, transport, and toxicity of contaminants. At the moment he is the Secretary-General of West African Society of Toxicology (WASOT) and also serves as the Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) officer/ Academic programme coordinator of World Bank African Center of Excellence for Public Health and Toxicological Research (ACE-PUTOR), University of Port Harcourt. He is a mentor to many young early-career toxicologists.