{"id":15387,"date":"2017-03-14T12:28:54","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T11:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=15387"},"modified":"2017-05-05T11:17:48","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T10:17:48","slug":"ngaha-dr-edwin-onye","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/ngaha-dr-edwin-onye\/","title":{"rendered":"NGAHA, Dr. Edwin Onye"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.Sc (Hons). Ph.D. biochemist, university teacher, born July 27, 1940, Eziobodo. Owerri. Imo State; married Mabel Chinonye Ugwuegbu 1973, four sons, two daughters: Education: City of Westminster College, London. 1967-68. King&#8217;s College. University of London. 1968-74: High School Teacher. Mbieri Central School. Owerri. 1957-58; Student Medical Laboratory Technologist, University College Hospital, Ibadan, 1958-62; Medical Laboratory Technologi.st, Clinical Chemistry and Morbid Anatomy, University College Hospital, Ibadan, 1962-63; Medical Laboratory Technologist, St George&#8217;s Hospital Medical School, University of London, 1963-66; WHO Research fellow, Royal Post-graduate Medical School, University of London, 1966-67; Senior Research Assistant, Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, University of London, 1967-68; Senior Research Assistant, Royal Cancer Hospital, Chester Beatty Research Institute, 1968; Research Histochemist\/ Cytochemist, St Georges Hospital Medical School, 1974-75; Lecturer\/Senior Lecturer, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, 1975-82; Reader in Biochemistry, OAU, 1982; member, Editorial Board, West African Jour nal of Pharmacology and Drug Research, 1977-80; member, Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON), since 1978; member, Scientific Team for the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA) Abuja working on Simulium Control Project on the Eradication of River Blindness; member. Environmental Consultancy Group, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife; fellow, Royal Microscopical Society, London, 1966; member, Biochemical Society of Great Britain, 1968; member, Science Association of Nigeria; member, West African Society for Pharmacology; member, Institute of Biology, London; member, International Society for Clinical Enzymology, 1981; member, Nigeria Biochemical Society; Publications: Con tributed a Chapter in&#8217;: &#8220;Histochemistry&#8221; Theoretical an3 applied, Vol.2, 3rd edition, (Churchill Livingstone, 1972), and over 20 ar ticles in scientific journals; Hobbies: tennis, swimming, reading; Official Address: Department of Biochemistry, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife; Home: House K9, Road 7D, Obafemi Awolowo University Campus, Ile-Ife, Oyo State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[176,1505],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-15387","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-academia","category-educationist"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/15387","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\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/15387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15428,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/15387\/revisions\/15428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15387"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=15387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}