Oluwole Babafemi Familoni is a professor of Chemistry at the University of Lagos and member of the Governing Council of the Institute of Chartered Chemists of Nigeria.
This prestigious accolade, the Professor Oluwole Familoni Award for the Best Graduating Student in Organic Chemistry in the University of Lagos, celebrates excellence and innovation in the discipline.
Familoni's area of specialisation is synthesis of heterocyclic compounds with physiological activities and natural product chemistry.
This includes: Pyrido[1,2-a]quinoxalinone, thiazolo[4,3-b]quinoxa-linone, Isothaizoles, substituted Benzothiazines, Pyridobenzothiadiazines, deoxyjacareubin, Xanthones, Dibenzo[b,f]oxapinone etc.
The plants he had worked on include: Buchholzia Coriacea, Ficus vallis-chouldae Delile-holl (Moraraceae) and Datarium microcarpum Gill-perr.
(Hymenocardiaceae) Abrus precatorius Cissus populnea Flabellaria paniculata Cav., Morinda lucida, Parkia biglobosa (Jacq) Benth and Sesamum radiatum; among others.
He has used these products to find remedy to the following: antioxidant and antibacterial activities, herbal medication for male infertility, anti-inflammatory and antinociceptive, gastric ulcer problems to mention but a few.
[12] He presented the 8th Inaugural lecture of Chemistry Department of University of Lagos in June 2008, titled "Synthetic Organic Chemists: Creating Molecules for the Benefit of Man The works has resulted in the graduation of numerous student at first and higher degrees.