Prof. Grace Olusola Gbotosho studied Pharmacy at the University of Ife (Now Obafemi Awolowo University), Nigeria and obtained her M.Sc and Ph.D degrees in Pharmacology and Therapeutics at the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.  She undertook part of her pre-doctoral training at the London School of Pharmacy, England.  She is a Professor of Pharmacology and Therapeutics in the Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences at the University of Ibadan.  She is the Pioneer Head of the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ibadan and a Fellow of the prestigious Nigerian Academy of Sciences.   Prof. Gbotosho heads the Malaria Research Laboratories, designated as a Centre of Excellence for Malaria Translational Research by the African Network for Drugs and Diagnostics Innovation (ANDi). The success of the research group is visible in the recorded extramural funding level, the establishment of a State-of–the-Art multidisciplinary malaria research laboratory that serves as a resource for research capacity building in infectious diseases in sub-Saharan Africa.  The field site of the Laboratory is a designated sentinel site for clinical Antimalarial Drug Efficacy Testing by the Federal Ministry of Health, Nigeria providing data instrumental in supporting National Malaria Control efforts.    Prof. Gbotosho’s career over the past 20 years has focused on Pharmacology, applications in discovery of novel interventions (diagnostics and therapeutics) for infectious diseases and elucidation of drug resistance in malaria.  She has collaborated with partners across Africa, Asia, UK and USA.   She has led as PI and Co-PI on international training grants (WHO/TDR, WHO/MIM/TDR, WellcomeTrust, International Society for Infectious Diseases) for developing young investigators in sub-Saharan Africa.   She has supervised and mentored over 40 MSc and 15 PhD students.  Prof. Gbotosho has 105 articles in international peer-reviewed journals and has served as an adviser to WHO/TDR at various consultation meetings in Asia and Europe.