Bio
Professor Atawodi has mentored 29 MSc, 11 PhD and hundreds of biomedical scientists at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria. He is a mentor, on behalf of the Nigerian Academy of Science for young Scientists in Federal Government College, Zaria. A winner of the research support prize by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany in 2005, Professor Atawodi is a co-grantee of two world Bank-STEP B Projects worth $248,000 each. He has established exposure of Nigerians to carcinogens and Nigerian diets that have potential to chemoprevent cancer, thus providing information that has wide ranging public health impact. He is a Fellow and Member of Council of the prestigious Nigerian Academy of Science (NAS), an organization that is promoting science at all levels in Nigeria