Awards | Research Grants

Awards & Honours

  Best Oral Presentation Award/Prize - inVISIBLE conference, University of Warwick (07/2022).

Marie Curie/EUTOPIA-SIF Award, University of Warwick (2021 -2022).

JSPS Fellowship for Foreign Researchers, Shizuoka University, Japan (2019-2021)

LAPHIA-LABEX Award, institute of Molecular Sciences, University of Bordeaux (2019)

NRF Fellowship Award, University of Zululand (2018 -2019) R520,000.

DST/MINTEK & NRF Doctoral Bursary Award, Rhodes University (2015-2017) R300,000.

University of Lagos Postgraduate Scholarship for outstanding applicant (2010).

Research Projects and Grants (Project Leader)

1.   International Science Partnership Fund (ISPF) - International Collaboration Awards 2023 (Brazil and South Africa)  (ICAO\R1\231012) - "Low-cost sustainable nanomaterial-based water purification systems with rapid on-site detection of pathogens at resource-limited settings." Funding body – UK Department for Science Innovation and Technology & Royal Society. 2024-5 to 2027-4| award-research fund | Principal Investigator | Value: £300,000.

2.   RSC Sustainable Laboratory Grant (L23-6387443930) - " Recycling ambient magnetic "noise" as a sustainable energy source in chemistry laboratories". Funding body - Royal Society of Chemistry.

2023-10 to 2024-10| award-research fund | Principal Investigator | Value: £10,000.

3.   Royal Society (UK) Research Grant (RG\R2\232090) - " New optical quantum dots nanoprobes and high sensitivity-fluoroimmunospectroscopy: Towards point-of-care "tripledemic" respiratory viruses detection". Funding body - Royal Society (UK). 2023-10 to 2024-10| award-research fund | Principal Investigator | Value: £70,000.

4.   RSC Research Fund Grant (R23-6478073709) - "Magnetoplasmonic quantum dots for the rapid and simultaneous detection of respiratory viruses using Raman spectroscopy". Funding body - Royal Society of Chemistry. 2023-10 to 2024-10| award-research fund | Principal Investigator | Value: £5,000.

5.   PUMP-PRIMING GRANT - "Label-free Raman spectra analysis of α-synuclein aggregation using modified RT-QuIC assay in post-mortem cerebrospinal tissue in Lewy body dementia. Funding body - Alzheimer's Research UK Newcastle Network Centre. 2023-04 to 2023-10| award-research fund | Co-Investigator | Value: £4,292.88.

6.   JSPS BRIDGE Fellowship FUND - "Magnetoplasmonic nanogels for optical biosensors design". Funding body - Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (London & Tokyo). 2023-08 to 2023-08| award-research fund-travel subsistence| Value: £4,500.

7.   SEED FUND - Self-powered “plug and play” diagnostic biosensors for disease biomarkers detection. Funding body - Teesside University, School of Health, and Life Science. 2022-12 to 2023-07 | award-research fund | Value: £3,000.

8.   EXCELLENT SCIENCE - "Sustainable Bioengineering Magnetoelectric Nanogenerators as self-powered diagnostic devices". Funding body - European Union's Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions at the University of Warwick, UK. 2021-09 to 2023-09 | salary & research award |Value: £155,000.

9.   NANOGEL Diagnosticx - "Electrochemical-SERS biosensors for infectious virus detection using nanogels encapsulated molybdenum plasmonic nanocrystals". Funding body - Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Tokyo) and Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED). 2019-11 to 2021-09 | salary & research award | Value: JPY (¥) 19.7 million (~£120,000).

10.   Silicon-NANO - "Biocompatible Organic Nanoparticles for Imaging Applications". Funding body - LabEx GANEX (Bordeaux). University of Bordeaux, France. 2018-03 to 2018-11 | salary & research award | Value: €52,000  (~£48,500).

11.   Nanocarbon-SENSORS - "Carbon-based nanomaterials for nanosensors design". Funding Body - National Research Foundation of South Africa under the South Africa Research Chair Initiative (SARCHI) in Nanotechnology at the University of Zululand, South Africa. 2018-03 to 2019-02 | salary & research award | Value: R5200,000 (~£32,000).