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April 7, 2024
2021 Distinguished Guest Lecture
Exposure, Collaboration and Mentoring: The Tripod for increasing the Capacity of Neuroscience Research in Africa
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The Thomas-Bassir Biomedical Foundation (TBBF) is a non-governmental organisation founded by Professor H. Oritsejolomi Thomas, CBE, CON, and FRCS in 1974, with the sole aim of advancing knowledge in human and animal health through research, for the benefit of the Nigerian people.
Formerly Wellcome Nigeria Fund which Thomas founded in 1974, remembers him for engaging a great idea namely, that there must be indigenous funding for research into health problems that face the Nigerian people, from his experience as a medical research scientist he recognized that local funding would have two important effects: to contribute to solutions to health problems that are unique to the tropics, and help to build and sustain health research capacity in Nigeria.
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Welcome
The Thomas-Bassir Biomedical Foundation (TBBF) is a not-for-profit, non-governmental charity founded by Professor H. Oritsejolomi Thomas, with the aim of advancing knowledge in human and animal health through research, for the benefit of the Nigerian people
Formerly Wellcome Nigeria Fund which Thomas founded in 1974, remembers him for engaging a great idea namely, that there must be indigenous funding for research into health problems that face the Nigerian people, from his experience as a medical research scientist he recognized that local funding would have two important effects: to contribute to solutions to health problems that are unique to the tropics, and help to build and sustain health research capacity in Nigeria.
Thomas Bassir Annual
Lecture Series
Speaker: Professor Olusoga A. Sofola
BSc, MSc, MB.BS. (Lagos), PhD (Leeds), FAS (Emeritus Professor of Physiology, College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria)
2018 Horatio Oritsejolomi Thomas Memorial Lecture
Lecture Date: August, 2018
Speaker: Prof Emmanuel Oladipo Otolorin
B.SC, MB.BS, FMCOG, FWACS, FICS, FRCOG.
2012 Horatio Oritsejolomi Thomas Memorial Lecture
Speaker: Professor Iruka N. Okeke
Featured Report
The 2019 Professor Olumbe Bassir Distinguished Guest Lecture
December 14, 2023
Call for Application
July 18, 2023
TBBF Scholarship Reports
Ameliorative Potential of Curcumin on Aluminium Chloride-induced Model of Alzheimer’s Disease in Drosophila melanogaster
Aluminium chloride (AlCl3) is known to be a potent neurotoxin and has been used to induce Alzheimer’s disease in animals
Applicants Effect of Diet on Metabolic Phenotype-Induced Changes in Bladder Outlet Obstruction in Male Wistar Rats
A concluded study revealed that dietary macronutrient composition of food influenced detrusor smooth muscle hypertrophy and contraction in male Wistar
Evaluation of Chemotherapeutic Potentials of Kolaviron, a Biflavonoid Complex from Garcinia kola seeds, in N-Methyl-N-Nitrosourea-induced mammary gland carcinoma in female rats.
Background Information: Breast cancer is the most common type of non-skin malignancy among women worldwide. It has been reported that
Histomorphometric and Synaptic Changes in the Pyramidal Layer of the Sensorimotor Cortex in Kaolin-Induced Neonatal Hydrocephalic Mice
Introduction: Hydrocephalus is a brain disorder in which circulation of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is impaired in such a way
Effect of Parental Health Literacy Program on their Adolescents’ Human Papillomavirus Vaccination Knowledge and Uptake in Ibadan, Nigeria
Background: Cervical cancer has been known to be one of the major causes of cancer morbidity and mortality among women
Influence of Diet-Induced Metabolic Phenotypes on Detrusor Function in Bladder Outlet Obstruction
BACKGROUND Bladder hypertrophy as a consequence of partial outlet obstruction has been linked to degenerative changes causing impairment of detrusor
My PhD thesis was titled, “Histomorphometric and synaptic changes in the pyramidal layer of the sensorimotor cortex in kaolin-induced neonatal hydrocephalic mice”.
The grant was used to augment the purchase and feeding of mice, purchase of some consumables (insulin syringes, cotton wool, methylated spirit, hand gloves, face masks, universal bottles) and special staining (Modified Golgi Staining Technique) of the mice brain tissues.
I sincerely appreciate the Thomas-Bassir Foundation for this seed grant because it served as an impetus for my PhD project.
Dr. Omowumi Femi-Akinlosotu
I carried out the project on the study of “Neuroinflammation, Tau and Amyloid Neurodegeneration in Brains of Mice Chronically Exposed to Vanadium: Progressive Changes after Vanadium Withdrawal.
I therefore, express my sincere appreciation to the Thomas-Bassir Biomedical Foundation for the grant and the significant and indelible mark this has enabled me to make on my career and sense of research.
Oluwabusayo Racheal Folarin
Department of Biomedical Laboratory Science, University of Ibadan
I received the Thomas-Bassir Biomedical Foundation Small Research Grant, the University of Ibadan in 2015.
This was instrumental in the completion of my PhD project, which was titled ‘The temporal profile of neuroinflammation, neurobehavioural and structural changes in kaolin-induced hydrocephalus in rats’. I am very grateful to the Thomas-Bassir Foundation for this seed grant, as it greatly helped me in the completion of the benchwork for my PhD degree.
Dr. Funmilayo Olopade
Department of Anatomy, University of Ibadan