{"id":8163,"date":"2017-01-17T15:15:49","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T14:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=8163"},"modified":"2017-04-19T13:57:12","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T12:57:12","slug":"eka-professor-offiong-udo","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/eka-professor-offiong-udo\/","title":{"rendered":"EKA, (Professor) Offiong Udo,"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Nutritional Biochemist and Head, Department of Biochemistry, Uni versity of Calabar; born August 18, 1938 at Oku, Uyo, Cross River State; Education: Government Practising School, Uyo, 1942 to 1954; Aggrey Memorial College, 1950-54; Ibadan Grammar School, 1954-59; Uni versity College, Dublin. 1960-64; Trinity College, Dublin, 1964 65; National University, Ireland, 1965 67; London University, 1967-68; Qualifications: B.Sc, M.Sc, Ph.D., H.Dip. Education; Career: Demon strator, University College, Dublin, 1963-67; Postgraduate Research Fellow, University College, Dublin and University of Ibadan, 1968-70; Lecturer, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, 1970-73; Senior Lecturer, 1973-77; Reader, 1977-78; Professor of Biochemistry, Uni versity of Calabar, 1978-1981; Appointed Head of Department, 1982. Clubs and other Associations: Member of Council, Senate,Appoint ments and Promotions Committees; Member, Board of Governors, Uni versity Staff School, Calabar Members, Board of Management, Uni versity of Calabar Teaching Hospital; Member of many professional Societies, President, Biochemical society of Nigeria. Publications: Publislied over forty scientific papers in the general fields of food science Nutritional Biochemistry,Toxiology, Enzymology, food Microbiology Industrial Microbiology and soil Microbiology; Married with two children one boy and one girl; Address: Home: 44 Ikot Ekpene Road, Uyo, Cross River State; Office: Department of Biochemistry, University of Calabar, Calabar, Cross River State; Hobbies: Table-Tennis and Farming. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[176],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-8163","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-academia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/8163","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\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/8163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8163"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=8163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}