Prof. Dr. Oluwatoyin A. Odeku is a Professor of Pharmaceutics and a former Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria. She holds a Bachelor of Pharmacy (Pharm) from the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), Ile-Ife, Nigeria, and obtained her M.Sc. and PhD degrees in Pharmaceutics from the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria. She received her postdoctoral training at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem School of Pharmacy in Jerusalem, Israel.  She has been a recipient of many fellowships and grants, among which are the DAAD visiting fellowship and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowships. She is the Humboldt Ambassador Scientist in Nigeria for the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany. Her research focuses on nanotechnology, drug delivery, and novel excipient development. She is a registered pharmacist and a Fellow of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, the Nigerian Academy of Science, and the Nigerian Academy of Pharmacy.