Oluwole 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 Principal Investigator 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 toxins impacts the migration of GABAergic neurons during corticogenesis in rodent models, in a bid to understand the neurodevelopmental basis of neurological conditions such as epilepsy, autism spectrum disorders, mental retardation, and schizophrenia. Prof. Akinola is the recipient of the University of Lecce Pre-doctoral Fellowship, IBRO Research Fellowship, IBRO Return Home Fellowship, and Project Support Grant of the British Society for Neuroendocrinology. He is also the author of the TETFund-supported textbook titled “Highlights of Human Anatomy”.