Emmanuel O. Akala, R. Ph., Ph.D. is a Professor of Pharmaceutics, Chair, Howard University Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) and Director, Laboratory for Nanomedicine, Drug Delivery, and Pharmaceutical & Biopharmaceutical Drug Products Design. His training is cosmopolitan and his curriculum vitae (CV) provides details of his professional training as a pharmacist and an immunization pharmacist (registered in Utah, Maryland, Washington DC and in Nigeria), a pharmacy professor, and a research scientist with bias for conventional and novel drug delivery systems. Professor Akala received B. Pharm. (Hons) degree and M.Sc. (Pharmaceutics) degree at The University of Ife (Now Obafemi Awolowo University), Ile-Ife, Nigeria and Ph.D. degree in Pharmaceutics at The University of Manchester, England (as a Commonwealth Scholar). He was a DAAD Fellow at the Institute of Biopharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Technology, University of Munster, Germany, and an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow in Pharmaceutics and Bioengineering at The University of Utah, USA. He has worked as a pharmacist in Nigeria and USA, and as a Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in Pharmaceutics in Nigeria, as a Teaching Assistant in England, as a Laboratory Instructor and Research Associate in USA and Germany and as an Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Professor of Pharmaceutics in USA.
