Unilorin professor discovers anti-cancer, anti-TB drugs, seeks commercialization
Dapo Olufade by Dapo Olufade August 23, 2019 in News, News Update

Professor Joshua Obaleye of the Department of Chemistry, University of Ilorin has announced the discovery of anti-malaria, anti-cancer and anti-tuberculosis drugs by a team led by him.

He said the drugs can be mass-produced to save lives.

Obaleye told newsmen in Ilorin that the team had tested numerous world-class metal compounds from his laboratory for the treatment of various diseases.

According to him, studies show that when a metal is attached with a pharmaceutical, it increases the efficacy of the drug.

But the don, who is also the President, America Chemical Society, Nigeria Chapter, and Chairman, Nigeria Chemical Society, Kwara State Chapter, said he lacked funds to commercialize the drugs.

According to the professor, he has also produced anti-inflammatory drugs and vitamins.

He said:“We need to commercialize all these drugs and invite the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control and other regulatory bodies to come over to examine what we have produced to confirm if what we say we have is what we have.

“When they investigate us and find out what we say is authentic, maybe they will be happy to help us.

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“We have produced metal anti-tuberculosis, metal anti-malaria, metal antibiotics and many more. We have produced a lot of them in this lab.

“Most of these drugs we have produced in our lab have other applications; even structural studies of them is enough. We can even use them as raw materials for other drugs.”

Obaleye called for effective collaboration among researchers in
the same discipline as well as interdisciplinary collaboration in order to come out with
world-class discoveries.

He said that collaboration had given him great opportunities to come up with groundbreaking researches.

“We are making a lot of achievements, we have many collaborators from India, we have collaborators in Malaysia, Japan and so many other countries.

“We work with people we know are experts in those areas; if you don’t collaborate, you just be a local champion without any progress,” he said.

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Nigeria educational system is just so backwards. Things that have been available since the medieval times one mumu go just come out say he don discover. Don't you know the meaning of discovery?. Fact is Nigerians don't have the mental capacity to discover things. We are not that intelligent , only cunny, mischievous and dubious. Forget all those news you read on punch that a Nigerian graduated with first class from a UK University, thousands of students from all over the world also graduated with first class from that same college so shove it up your ass coz no one gives a fúck.

Naso one talk for news say he discover machine to clear water hyacinth lol

Kudos

nice

KingAzubuike:
Nigeria educational system is just so backwards. Things that have been available since the medieval times one mumu go just come out say he don discover. Don't you know the meaning of discovery?. Fact is Nigerians don't have the mental capacity to discover things. We are not that intelligent , only cunny, mischievous and dubious. Forget all those news you read on punch that a Nigerian graduated with first class from a UK University, thousands of students from all over the world also graduated with first class from that same college so shove it up your ass coz no one gives a fúck.

Naso one talk for news say he discover machine to clear water hyacinth lol

you made sense in your 1st lines till ur 4th sentence then ur point landed inside Pacific Ocean

KingAzubuike:
Nigeria educational system is just so backwards. Things that have been available since the medieval times one mumu go just come out say he don discover. Don't you know the meaning of discovery?. Fact is Nigerians don't have the mental capacity to discover things. We are not that intelligent , only cunny, mischievous and dubious. Forget all those news you read on punch that a Nigerian graduated with first class from a UK University, thousands of students from all over the world also graduated with first class from that same college so shove it up your ass coz no one gives a fúck.

Naso one talk for news say he discover machine to clear water hyacinth lol

This is the kind of discouragement that is being melted out to researchers who have dedicated their lives to improving the well-being of Nigerian by way of ethical research. It is rather unfortunate for you, rather than giving commendation for a research that took years to conduct but since you don't know the value of what you have,you'll rather have him seek elsewhere for commercialization when hundreds are dying everyday as a result of TB.
Did you even know that Nigeria is ranked 6th among the 30 high burden TB affected countries in Africa
Prof 'Obalium' has we do call him is a notable researcher with numerous grants from WHO,UNICEF and others.

Wow