Dr Mohammed Auwal Ibrahim is an Associate Professor of Biochemistry at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria. He obtained his PhD from University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at University of Pretoria, South Africa (2 years) and another fellowship of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) conducted at National Institute for Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan for 1.5 years. His research is mainly focused on the molecular biology, biotherapeutics, drug design and discovery targeting trypanosomiasis, malaria and type 2 diabetes which culminated into >100 scientific articles and >40 presentations at conferences/seminars in different parts of the globe. Dr. Ibrahim has provided leadership by successfully supervising 12 MSc and 3 PhD candidates to completion. In 2018, he was awarded the Young Scientist Program fellowship of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Seoul, South Korea. He also received travel grants of the American Society for Cell Biology in collaboration with Carnegie Corporation of New York as well as travel grants from United States National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine, World Conference on Research Integrity among others. He was also a recipient of competitive doctoral grants from University of KwaZulu Natal, Institution-based research grant from TETFUND, Nigeria and National Research Foundation (NRF) grant by TETFUND, Nigeria, as the principal investigator. He is currently the President of the Nigerian Young Academy (2021 – 2023), a fellow of African Science Literacy Network and an editor/reviewer to many international journals. He is greatly involved in science communication and public engagement for scientific awareness using radio programmes, webinars and online magazines/newspapers publications.

He was elected as an Affiliate Member of the AAS for his contribution to drug design and discovery through the use of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology tools.