Ahmadu Bello University Helen Nosakhare Asemota is a biochemist and agricultural biotechnologist based in Jamaica.
She is Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Director of the Biotechnology Centre at the University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica.
[1][2] In 1990, Asemota moved to Jamaica to take up a position as Associate Honorary Lecturer at the University of the West Indies.
[6] During this time she was Head of the Nanobiology Division of the Shaw Nanotechnology Initiative at the Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Research Centre (NNRC) from 2005 to 2009, Nature Sciences Biological Sciences' Program Coordinator from 2009 to 2010, and Chairman for the Shaw University Institutional Review Board (IRB) from 2006 to 2009, Senator for the Shaw Faculty Senate between 2007 and 2012, Core Director of the Faculty Research Development at the NIH- Research Infrastructure for Minority Institutions and as IRB Administrator between 2010 and 2012.
[6] In 2013, Asemota was appointed Director of the Biotechnology Centre, a research unit at the University of the West Indies with a focus on biotechnology-based enterprises.
[5][7][9] Initially, Asemota investigated the biochemical effects of removing yam heads at harvest,[10] a common farming practice in Jamaica.