Fathia Agbolagade

Fathia Agbolagade is an emerging scholar and promising researcher in the field of Biochemistry, with a specialized concentration on cancer therapeutics, diabetes research, and industrial drug development. She maintains an impressive CGPA of 4.24/5.0 as a top-performing undergraduate at the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA).

 

Her research interests focus on molecular modeling, computational drug discovery, and the biochemical mechanisms underlying disease, as evidenced by her ongoing in silico investigation of bioactive inhibitors of Dihydrofolate Reductase in Trypanosoma brucei. Fathia's technical expertise includes the utilization of laboratory and computational tools such as spectrophotometry, gas chromatography, electrophoresis, Pyrx, Python, Chimera, Pymol, RDKit, and Google Colab.

 

Beyond research, Fathia has a strong commitment to scientific capacity building and academic mentoring.  She supervised undergraduates at the Federal University of Technology, Akure, where she worked as an academic tutor. Over 90% of her mentees achieved academic success. She has also actively participated in leadership and scientific outreach, most notably as the host and coordinator of the CAT2D Molecular Dynamics Workshop and as a guest speaker at the Sciencoon Outreach Program, where she gave a motivational speech about "AI's Role in the Future of Work."