Dr. AbdulAzeez A. Anjorin is a Medical Virologist and certified health professional for infectious diseases. He is an elected Governing Board member of the Middle East, Eurasia & Africa- Influenza Stakeholders Network (ME’NA- ISN) and the Coordinator/ Principal Investigator for African Infectious Disease Multidisciplinary Research and Grant (AFIDMURG). He currently serves as the Head of Department of Microbiology and the Team Leader for Influenza & Other Respiratory Tract Viruses (IORTV) research at the Lagos State University, Nigeria.
He received the Global Virus Network (GVN) training scholarship for Emerging Leaders in Virology at the Institute of Human Virology, University of Maryland School of Medicine; Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore; and National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, USA. He was also trained at the Bacterial and Viral Bioinformatics Resource Center (BV-BRC), Argonne National Laboratory, University of Chicago, Lemont, Illinois.
Dr. AbdulAzeez also had a training fellowship at the Luxembourg Institute of Health WHO influenza reference Laboratory. He received his Doctoral degree in Medical Microbiology with specialization in Virology from the College of Medicine/ School of Postgraduate studies, University of Lagos. He was also trained at the International Society for Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses (ISIRV)/ Christian Medical College (CMC) Respiratory Virus School in Vellore, India; and received the INGSA Africa Science Advice Skills Development Program Training Fellowship.
He has presented papers in different countries in Africa, America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, attending over 50 conferences/ workshops including different WHO functions like WHO Consultation on A scientific framework for epidemic and pandemic research preparedness (2024); WHO Global Research and Innovation Forum (GRIF) on Building the world’s resilience against future outbreaks and pandemics (2023); WHO R&D Blueprint consultation on Improving Vaccine Effectiveness Studies: A vital step before the next pandemic (2023); WHO Consultation on COVID vaccines research: Advancing the development of pan-sarbecovirus vaccines (2022), and WHO R&D Blueprint Consultation- COVID-19 Global research & innovation forum (2022); as well as the Africa CDC Stakeholder Engagement Summit on Partnership for Vaccine Manufacturing (2021).
Dr. AbdulAzeez has served as a Consultant to MSD and Partners on biosafety to WACOT company, and Nigerian Center for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) as Subject Expert on Dynamic Risk Assessment for Nigeria on Respiratory Infection in Europe. He is a facilitator for the African Forum for Research and Education in Health (AFREhealth) Strengthening Interprofessional Education (STRIPE) HIV training, as well as lectures at the World Bank sponsored Africa Centre Of Excellence for Innovative and Transformative STEM Education (ACEITSE). AbdulAzeez sits on the Editorial board of PLOS ONE journal as an Academic Editor; International Editor (Associate) of the Pan-African Medical Journal; and an Associate Editor/ Editorial Board Secretary of the Journal of Research and Review in Science. He was elected as the General Secretary of the Nigerian Young Academy (NYA) and has served as the Moderator, Series 3.1 on Genomics and translational research in Africa: Local Vaccine production; and the Nigerian Molecular Laboratory Network in 2022.
He is the LOC Publicity Chairman and a member of the 2023-2024 Scientific Committee for African Virology Network (AVN) Conference 2024; and doubles as a member of the Scientific Committee for the Middle East, Eurasia & Africa- Influenza Stakeholders Network (ME’NA-ISN) 2022-date. He has served as the LOC Secretary of the Lagos State University Faculty of Science International Conference (FOSIC) 2022, as the Chairman of the Theme & Abstract Review Committee, FOSIC 2020. He was a Guest Speaker at the WHO Collaborating Global Center for Mass Gatherings Medicine, Saudi Arabia Ministry of Health 5th International Conference for Mass Gatherings Medicine, Hilton Riyadh (2023); Guest Speaker/ Presenter at the IRD-WHO Collaborating partner Webinar (2022); and as the international webinar resource person, at Sree Narayana College, Kannur, India at the Post-Graduate and Research Department of Zoology & IQAC in 2020.
He received the University of Liverpool UK-ICN Travel Support to attend the International Conference on Severe Coronavirus Infection at the King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh (2022). The CEPI Global South Travel Award for the 7th World One Health Congress in Singapore (2022). He moderated presentations on innovation in influenza vaccine at the ME’NA-ISN Influenza days in Istanbul, Turkey in 2022. He enjoyed the Lagos State University Conference and Travel Grants (2023, 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018 & 2017), and received the Vice-Chancellor Commendation in 2017. He was a recipient of the European-Scientific Working group on Influenza Young Scientist Award in Riga, Latvia-2017; Selected for the H3ABioNet IBT by the Pan-Africa Bioinformatics Network for H3Africa in 2016; Granted the University training support to the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, the University of Ghana in 2015; attended the 17th SAAR-LOR-LUX Workshop on Virology Research at the University of Lorraine, France, and visited the University of Trier, Germany in 2014. He was awarded the FGN-TETFUND PhD Scholarship; UMA-PhD Scholarship; Lagos State Government MSc Scholarship; and the Lagos State Scholarship Awards (2007-2005, 2000-1999).
Dr. AbdulAzeez works majorly on respiratory viruses and public health research on vaccines, with publications in high impact factor journals. He is a member of the International Society for Infectious Diseases (ISID), American Society for Microbiology (ASM), African Society for Laboratory Medicine (ASLM), African Virology Network, Association of Virologists of Nigeria (AVN) and the Nigerian Society for Microbiology.