Marquis Who’s Who Honors Dr. Olakunle Adeboye Jaiyesimi, BPharm, MSc, PhD, for Expertise in Science and Technology

CAMBRIDGE, MA, March 31, 2026 /24-7PressRelease/ — Dr. Olakunle Adeboye Jaiyesimi, BPharm, MSc, PhD, has been chosen for inclusion in Marquis Who’s Who. As in all Marquis Who’s Who biographical volumes, people profiled are chosen on the idea of present reference worth. Factors corresponding to place, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a area are all taken under consideration throughout the choice course of.

Dr. Jaiyesimi is a metabolomics scientist working on the intersection of environmental publicity, human well being, and precision drugs. He has established a distinguished profession in metabolomics, programs biology and medicinal plant analysis, marked by important contributions to each academia and trade. Since 2022, he has been a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, the place his experience in small-molecule profiling and metabotyping has been central to his analysis. In 2024, Dr. Jaiyesimi traveled to Ogoniland, Nigeria, a area challenged by crude oil air pollution and its hostile results on native communities. Supported by Motsepe Presidential Research Accelerator Fund for Africa from the Motsepe Foundation, managed by Harvard University in collaboration with Host, Prof. Cassandra G. Extavour, Harvard University/HHMI and Professor Amos Abolaji on the University of Ibadan, he led a analysis challenge using metabolomics and biochemistry to evaluate the well being impacts of environmental contamination on dwelling programs, soil and water. Despite going through safety dangers, together with a near-kidnapping incident, Dr. Jaiyesimi and his staff collected very important samples throughout a number of communities, contributing to ongoing efforts to know the detrimental results of air pollution on each human and ecological well being.

He is spearheading the African Metabolome Project, a large-scale effort to generate population-level metabolomic datasets for precision drugs, whereas additionally growing the South-West Botanical Conservation & Bio-Innovation Center to combine biodiversity conservation with metabolomics-driven discovery and translational analysis.

From 2019 to 2020, and 2020 to 2022, Dr. Jaiyesimi was a analysis scientist and postdoctoral researcher respectively on the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology. During this era, he superior his analysis in metabolomics, specializing in the great evaluation of small molecules that make clear the interactions between hosts and their related microbes. His work contributed to a deeper understanding of how environmental elements affect phenotypic variety.

Between 2016 and 2019, Dr. Jaiyesimi was engaged in his doctoral research at Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. His analysis centered on investigating Brazilian and Nigerian medicinal crops for bioactive compounds with potential functions in managing diabetes and pre-diabetes. He characterised bioactive compounds, together with flavonoids and sesquiterpene lactones, that will play a job in illness prevention and administration.

Earlier in his profession, Dr. Jaiyesimi gained sensible expertise as a medical pharmacist at Paelon Memorial Hospital from 2011 to 2012. In this capability, he utilized his pharmaceutical data to affected person care and treatment administration, together with making ready extemporaneous drugs for his sufferers. Also in 2011, he labored as a medical consultant for GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Nigeria Limited, selling pharmaceutical merchandise and partaking with healthcare professionals. The earlier 12 months, he served as a enterprise growth government at Emzor Pharmaceuticals, contributing to the corporate’s strategic progress initiatives. His skilled journey started as an intern pharmacist at GSK Nigeria from 2008 to 2009.

Dr. Jaiyesimi’s experience in metabolomics has garnered recognition throughout the scientific neighborhood. He acquired the Best Poster Award on the 2025 Metabolomics Association of North America Conference, held in Banff, Alberta, Canada. His Motsepe Presidential Research Accelerator Fund for Africa grant and analysis on environmental influences on phenotypes utilizing Drosophila melanogaster as a mannequin organism earned him a departmental recognition at Harvard University in 2024. Early in 2026, he was featured on TV Continental and Arise News, two main Nigerian tv channels, and interviewed by The Punch and The Nation newspapers.

He is an lively member of a number of skilled organizations, together with the management of Metabolomics Africa, membership of Metabolomics Association of North America’s Precision Medicine Interest Group, and Metabolomics South Africa. He participated in the 2025 and 2026 MIT Africa Innovate Conference (AIC) Hackathons; and was an MIT AIC School Ambassador for 2026. Between 2023 and 2025, Dr. Jaiyesimi was a Member of Harvard University’s Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Community Task Force on Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging (DIB); the place he additionally served as a Committee Chair.

Dr. Jaiyesimi’s educational background has been instrumental in shaping his profession trajectory. Dr. Jaiyesimi started his educational journey with a Bachelor of Pharmacy from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria (2008). He holds a Master of Science in Pharmacognosy from the identical establishment in Nigeria (2015), the place he specialised in the research of ethnomedicinally used antidiabetic crops with an curiosity in the research of Africa’s wealthy biodiversity. His curiosity in understanding the bioactive small molecules in the pure world led him to Brazil, the place he earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Universidade de São Paulo in 2019. His understanding that drugs and meals ingested by means of the mouth don’t work in isolation of the intestine microbes led him to his first Postdoctoral Fellowship at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA. He continued to Harvard University to pursue analysis in Evolutionary Biology, throughout the context of Systems Biology.

In addition to his formal schooling, Dr. Jaiyesimi has expanded his experience into AI-driven programs and entrepreneurship. These credentials have broadened his ability set strongly complementing conventional pharmaceutical sciences.

Dr. Jaiyesimi’s analysis excellence has been acknowledged by means of a number of awards, together with grants from the Motsepe Foundation (2024), Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico beneath Brazil’s Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation (2016 to 2019), and participation in the CAPES Academic Excellence Program by means of Brazil’s Ministry of Education (2016).

He has contributed considerably to scientific literature of peer-reviewed publications: “Metabolomic Profiling of Burkholderia Cenocepacia in Synthetic Cystic Fibrosis Sputum Medium Reveals Nutrient Environment-Specific Production of Virulence Factors,” printed in Scientific Reports (2021); “Differences in Cystic Fibrosis-Associated Burkholderia Spp. Bacteria Metabolomes After Exposure to the Antibiotic Trimethoprim,” printed in ACS Infectious Diseases (2020); and “LC-UV-HRMS Dereplication of Secondary Metabolites From Brazilian Vernonieae (Asteraceae) Species Supported Through In-House Database,” printed in Biochemical Systematics and Ecology (2018).

Born in Ijebu-Ode, Dr. Jaiyesimi enjoys inventive engagements, programs pondering and “building things from thin air”. For leisure, he enjoys edifying conversations.

Looking forward, Dr. Jaiyesimi envisions making important affect in bio-conservation efforts, geared toward advancing conservation and documentation of extinct and endangered indigenous medicinal (and spiritually used) crops, preserving indigenous data programs with scientific instruments, notably utilizing metabolomics, growing revolutionary programs for precision drugs and early illness detection; an method geared toward reworking diagnostics and medicinal plant analysis whereas opening new alternatives for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries by documenting metabolic modifications throughout populations worldwide over a number of generations.

Dr. Jaiyesimi’s dedication to advancing scientific data by means of analysis, innovation, neighborhood management and international collaboration continues to differentiate him inside his area.

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