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Congratulations to Professor Olufunmilayo Olopade for
her contributions.  I know all Nigerians along with
all other Africans are proud of her achievements.

Together we can make the world a better place.
Cheers.

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U.S-Based Nigerian Bags Mac Arthur Fellowship

Daily Champion (Lagos)

NEWS

September 23, 2005

Posted to the web September 23, 2005

By Okey Nwankwo

Lagos

A NIGERIAN resident in the United States, Professor
Olufunmilayo Olopade has been selected as one of the
2005 MacArthur Fellows.

The John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation
yesterday named 25 new MacArthur Fellows for the year
with each receiving a $500,000 grant for research over
the next five years.

MacArthur Fellows are selected for their creativity,
originality and potentials. The foundation, by
providing resources without stipulations or reporting
requirements, offers the opportunity for fellows to
accelerate their current activities or take their work
in new directions.

Olopade, a professor of medicine and human genetics
started out in 1980 from University of Ibadan.

She served as a medical officer with the Nigerian Navy
Hospital and then completed an internship and
residency in 1986 at the Cook County Hospital,
Chicago.

Between 1987 and 1991, she trained in hematology and
oncology as a post doctoral fellow at the University
of Chicago and presently is director of the center for
clinical cancer genetics at the University of Chicago
Medical Center.

Professor Olopade is an oncologist who researches on
individual and population cancer susceptibility in
order to proffer effective clinical practice for
treating breast cancer among African and Afro-American
women.

As funding director of the centre for clinical cancer
genetics at the University of Chicago, she leads the
application of her research from the bench to the
bedside.

She oversees a coordinated multi-disciplinary,
clinical programme that includes oncologists, primary
care physicians, genetic counsellors, sociologists
amongst others who provides free access to genetic
services for local at-risk populations.







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