{"id":14142,"date":"2017-03-07T11:00:40","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T10:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=14142"},"modified":"2017-11-23T16:00:24","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T15:00:24","slug":"osunkoya-professor-babatunde-olusoji","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/osunkoya-professor-babatunde-olusoji\/","title":{"rendered":"OSUNKOYA, Prof. Babatunde Olusoji"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>physician, Professor of Immunology, Head of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan; Born: October 26, 1934 in Lagos; Educa tion: attended Ladi-Lak Institute Yaba, 1942-45; Olowogbowo Metho dist School, Lagos, 1946, Methodist Boys&#8217; High School, Lagos, 1947- 52, University College, Ibadan, 1954- 61, University of Ibadan, 1964-66; appointed house physician, sur geon, University College Hospital, Ibadan, January &#8211; December 1962; rural medical officer, Ministry of Health, old Western Region, January \u2014 December 1963, medical research training fellow, Department of Path ology, University of Ibadan, January 1964 &#8211; December 1966, lecturer, University of Ibadan, January 1967 &#8211; September 1969, visiting associate professor, Tumour Biology and Immunology Unit, Department of Pathology, University of Florida, Gainseville, Florida, United States of America, April 1969 &#8211; August 1969 senior lecturer, Department of Pathology, University of Ibadan, October 1969 &#8211; February 1971; senior lecturer, Department of Chem ical Pathology, University of Iba dan, March 1971 \u2014 September 1972; consultant pathologist, Uni versity College Hospital, Ibadan since 1968; director, WHO collabora ting Centre for Research and Train ing in Immunology, Department of Chemical Pathology, University of Ibadan, January 1972 to date; became professor of Immunology and head of Medicine from October 1973; Married and has four sons, Address (Home): 20 Parry Road, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Tele phone: Ibadan 62550, extension 1944; (Office) Immunology Centre, Department of Chemical Pathology, University College Hospital, Iba dan, Oyo State; Telephone: Ibadan 62010, extension 2230 Hobby: dance, music, table tennis, chess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[176],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-14142","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-academia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/14142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/14142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14142"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=14142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}