The department deals with raw materials, dosage forms and their preparations using current Good Manufacturing Practice. The objectives of this department are:
- To provide high-quality training at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels in the art and science of dispensing, drug delivery and dosage form design.
- To train students in the principles and practice of industrial pharmacy
- To undertake research in the development of pharmaceuticals from synthetic and natural products
- To provide professional counselling services to the food, pharmaceutical and allied industries.
- To provide and sustain an enabling environment for research.
Academic Programmes
The department offers undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in pharmaceutics and pharmaceutical technology. Undergraduate students are exposed to practicals in dispensing and formulations of different dosage forms. Postgraduate students conduct innovative research.
Research Areas
- Drug Delivery
- Biopolymer
- Nanotechnology
- Biomaterials
- Formulations
Facilities for Student Training
The department is equipped with equipment to facilitate research and teaching. Some of the equipment present is:
- Tableting Machine
- Disintegration apparatus
- Dissolution Apparatus
- Gas Chromatography
- High-Performance
- Liquid Chromatography
Departmental Organogram
Prof. Oluyemisi Adebowale BAMIRO
Oluyemisi.bamiro@oouagoiwoye.edu.ng
ORCID ID: : https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6032-6075
Google Scholar Citation:537; H-index:11; i10-index:15
+2348023236963
Oluyemisi Aebowale Bamiro is a Professor of Pharmaceutics in the Department of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Technology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Olabisi Onabanjo University. She joined the university in 2002 after practising in the hospital (4 years) and community (8 years). Prof. Bamiro is a graduate of the University of Ibadan with a B.Pharm (1988), a master’s (2002) and a PhD in Pharmaceutics and Industrial Pharmacy (2011).
She has several journal articles and book chapters to her credit. Her research interests are formulation, excipients, drug delivery, polymers and nanotechnology. She had her postdoc at Union University Jackson, Tennessee, USA and she was a recipient of INSA-JRD TATA award (2009).
Department of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Technology, Faculty of Pharmacy
Recent Publications
- Odeniyi, M.A., Adegbolagun, T.I., Odeniyi, O.A., Bamiro, O. (2025). Oral Dissolving Films of Native and Modified Starches from Underutilized Crops as Delivery Vehicles for Green Synthesized Bridelia ferruginea-Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles, Next Research, 100502
- Bamiro, O.A., Benette, L.L., Odeniyi, M.A. (2024). Native and modified starch nano-crystals loaded with doxorubicin mediated apoptosis in human breast cancer MCF7 cells. Journal of Clinical Images and Medical Case Reports, 2024; 5(3): 2921
- Balogun-Agbaje, O.A., Usman, F., Ladele, F., Oyegunju, A ., Sowunmi, A., Babalola, C.O., Uwaezuoke, O.J., Bamiro, O.A., Bakre, L.G. (2024).Enhancement of cefixime solubility using a ternary solid dispersion system containing starch isolated from maize genotype. West African Journal of Pharmacy, 35 (1):32-44
- Olagunju, A.O., Bamiro, O.A., Bakre, L.G. (2024). Formulation and characterization of ibuprofen solid dispersion using native and modified starches. Nigerian Journal of Pharmaceutical Research,19(1):47-57
- Adeleye, O.A., Aremu, O.K., Iqbal, H., Adedokun, M.O., Bamiro, O.A., Okunye, O.L., Femi-Oyewo, M.N., Sodeinde, K.O., Yahaya, Z.S. and Awolesi, A.O (2023). Green Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles Using Extracts of Ehretia cymosa and Evaluation of Its Antibacterial Activity in Cream and Ointment Drug Delivery Systems. Journal of Nanotechnology Volume 2023, Article ID 2808015
- Adejumo, O.E., Badmus, F.A., Oluboba, M.A., Bamiro, O.A. (2023). High-Performance Liquid Chromatographic Determination of folic acid content in Pharmaceutical formulations marketed in Southwest Nigeria. The Nigerian Journal of Pharmacy, 57(2):624-632
- Bamiro, O.A., Bakre, L.G., Adeleye, O.A (2023). Assessment of compressional, mechanical and release properties of Terminalia randii gum in paracetamol tablet formulation. Acta Pharmaceutica Scientia, 61(3):317-333
- Femi-Oyewo, M.N., Adeleye, O.A., Bakre, L.G., Bamiro, O.A., Odeleye, F.O., Babalola, O.C., Ola-Dauda, K.O (2023). Evaluation of the Antimicrobial Activity of Strombosia grandifolia Hook.f. ex Benth Extract Hand Sanitizer Formulation. Jordan Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 16 (1): 61-71
Academic Staff
Prof. L.G. Bakre: Professor of Pharmaceutics and Industrial Pharmacy. lateef.bakre@oouagoiwoye.edu.ng. Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1222-1057
Google scholar citation: 764; h index: 11; i10-index: 13 (+234 8033700102)
Dr. C.O Babalola. Senior Lecturer, olufunke.babalola@oouagoiwoye.edu.ng, ORCID ID: https://orcid.org: 0000-0002-1742-8762, Google Scholar ID Citation: h index: , i-10 index: (+234 8038279948)
Dr. Onyinye Jennifer Uwaezuoke Lecturer 1, uwaezuoke@oouagoiwoyw.edu.ng ORCID ID: https://orcid.org:0000-0001-7490-3868, Google Scholar Citation: 379 h index: 12, i-10 index:12 (+2348033424869)
Dr Olalekan Adeyinka Balogun-Agbaje Lecturer 1, Olalekan.agbaje@oouagoiwoye.edu.ng, ORCID ID: https://orcid.org: 0000-0001-7047-5640, Google Scholar Citation: 148, h-index: 4, i-10-index: 3(+2348056627491)
Technological Staff
Mr Akinlolu Kehinde King, Assistant Chief Technology, king.kehinde@oouagoiwoye.edu.ng (+2348161560797)
Miss Tawakalit Olufunmilola Lawal, Senior Technologist, ltawakalit@yahoo.com , (+2347032976046)
Mrs Oluyemisi Temitope Adesanya, Assistant Lab Supervisor, adesanyayemisitemitope@gmail.com , (+2348062082646)
Non-Academic Staff
Mrs Oshoyemi Esther Olayinka, Senior Secretariat Assistant 1, osoyemi.esther@oouagoiwoye.edu.ng (+2348135643073)
Mrs Grace Afolasade Olukumoro, Higher Executive Officer, Oguyemigrace1@gmail.com. (+2348107608293)
Contact Information
- Address: Faculty of Pharmacy building, Rm 014, Department of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Technology, Main Campus
- Email: ppt.dept@oouagoiwoye.edu.ng
- Office Hours: Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM