Biosciences firm to partner Unilorin on research in pursuit of global standard

Ikhide Imumorin, the President and Chief Executive Officer of African Biosciences Limited, has expressed readiness of his research outfit to collaborate with the University of Ilorin in order to take biosciences research to the next level.

Imumorin made this request while presenting his paper entitled “Transforming Biosciences Research through University Partnerships with African Biosciences Ltd” held at the Conference Room of the Central Research Laboratory, University of Ilorin.

The Biosciences research expert said his research group is committed to signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the University of Ilorin with an assurance that the resources of African Biosciences Ltd will be made available to the University towards meeting its academic and research missions.

Imumorin said, “as part of the MoU, we will provide special pricing for reagents and supplies, provide access to research support, and access to laboratory at special discount rates.

“Biosciences technical training services will be available to the University of Ilorin research community to update skills, current knowledge and provide continuing education”.

The Biosciences research expert, who is also a co-founder of the research-based company, mentioned that the company runs Biosciences research advisory services and commercial platforms, pointed out that the company’s range of services also includes the designing of research projects for B. Sc., M. Sc., and PhD students; provision of well-equipped laboratory or direct use or for contract research services, helping to identify journals and preparation of high quality manuscripts for publication as well as helping with data analysis and interpretation for research projects.

In his remarks, Gabriel Olatunji, the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research, Technology and Innovations), University of Ilorin, restated the commitment of the management of the University to make its research harvests to address certain problems in the country.

Olatunji, while describing the presentation as an eye-opener, observed that the University of Ilorin would consider the proposal because private laboratories contribute immensely in moving research in an institution, such as the University of Ilorin, to the next level.

The Deputy Vice-Chancellor further observed that modern equipment emanated from the laboratory before getting to the final consumer, stating that partnerships with research organisations will bring about mutual benefits to all parties.“This kind of collaboration will not only be intellectually enriching, but the financial benefit will be enormous” he noted

Similarly, Temidayo Oladiji, the Director of the Central Research Laboratory, scored the University of Ilorin 90 percent in research endeavours because, “most of the services that the outfit is trying to offer are things that already exist in the institution” she said

Oladiji said, “We have the privilege of bringing in people from the United States of America to come and train us. We were able to achieve that because we want them to build us into their grants.

“The University of Ilorin Central Research Laboratory has been working very hard and there are people who can testify to it. We have received samples from different parts of Nigeria and I am happy to say this because we have different people who can attest to this fact”.

She however, said that despite the fact that the University of Ilorin has collaboration agreements with many countries across the world, partnering with African Biosciences would make the research work of the institution to be faster and cheaper.

“The University of Ilorin is doing what we suppose to be doing. But we are not satisfied yet. So, if there is anything that we want to be, it is to be the best” Oladiji said.

SIKIRAT SHEHU