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Biography

Oluwole B. Akinola is a Professor in the Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Ilorin with more than two decades of teaching, research and administrative experience. As the PI of the Laboratory of Neuro-endocrinology, Akinola’s team seeks to understand the link between androgen deprivation, insulin resistance and synaptic plasticity, including understanding how impaired insulin receptor signaling contributes to the pathogenesis and progression of neurodegenerative diseases. His lab also studies how gestational co-exposure to environmental factors impacts the migration of GABAergic neurons during corticogenesis in rodent models, in a bid to understand the developmental basis of neurological conditions such as autism spectrum disorders and schizophrenia. Prof. Akinola is the recipient of the IBRO Research Fellowship, University of Lecce Pre-doctoral Fellowship and the IBRO Return Home Fellowship. He is also the author of the TETFund-supported book titled Highlights of Human Anatomy.