[1] Elufioye is also a Fulbright Scholar at University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she is investigating drugs for neurodegenerative diseases.
[5] Her research is especially focused on compounds that could be used to treat malaria, wounds, memory loss, leprosy and cancer.
[6] The Elsevier Foundation Awards was presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting in Chicago and included a prize of $5000.
[7] When she won the award, the Vice Chancellor at the University of Ibadan, Isaac Adewole, said that Elufioye's accomplishments "would inspire other women in science" and that she is "a pride of Nigeria and the African continent as a whole.
[12] Elufioye was born into an educated family where her mother was a teacher and her father was an administrator at a university.