Research Focus:

Infectious Diseases and Antimicrobials

Biosketch:

David Olusoga Ogbolu is a Medical Laboratory Scientist at Osun State University whose research focus is on Infectious Diseases and Antimicrobials. He won British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (BSAC), UK award in 2008 to complete his Ph.D research work at the Institute of Immunity & Infection, Medical School, University of Birmingham, UK. This led to a two-year fellowship grant awarded by Royal Society Newton International Fellowship in January 2012 as the only African for the year. This was to investigate mechanisms of bacterial resistance to carbapenem, a last resort drug against multiply resistant Gram negative bacteria.

He has active international collaborations with Antimicrobial Agents Research Group of University of Birmingham, Birmingham and Quadram Institute Bioscience, Norwich UK. This is evident in his  publications where more than 80% are based on antimicrobial agents research with some in reputable international journals, notably; Blair J.M., Webber M.A., Baylay A.J., Ogbolu D.O., Piddock L.J. (2014). Molecular mechansims of antibiotic resistance. Nature reviews Microbiology 13: 42-51. United Kingdom. www.nature.com/nrmicro. Thomson Reuter/ISI Impact Factor- 23.574.

At the molecular level, he has been able to elucidate how antibiotic resistance arises, defined, and characterized mechanisms of resistance that have a clinical relevance and analysis of plasmids that mediate their resistance in Enterobacteriaceae and Pseudomonaceae in Nigeria. In conjunction with his collaborators, they reported plasmid as the molecular cause of bacteria resistance to quinolone in 2005 and qnrD a plasmid mediated quinolone resistance gene in 2011 after China. He is part of the global community using garnered knowledge to discover novel approaches to the treatment of bacterial infection.

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