Rate My Professor Adepemi Ogundeji

Dr. Adepemi Olawunmi Ogundeji is a researcher at the University of the Free State. She earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Microbiology from the University of the Free State. She serves as Biobank Curator at the BBSA Yeast Culture Collection within the Department of Microbiology and Biochemistry in the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences. Her work centers on medical microbiology with publications addressing Cryptococcus species, including the 2016 paper "Repurposing of aspirin and ibuprofen as candidate anti-Cryptococcus drugs" and the 2017 paper "The repurposing of anti-psychotic drugs, quetiapine and olanzapine, as anti-cryptococcus drugs." Additional publications explore environmental factors in Cryptococcus pathogenesis, identification methods for Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii, and related topics in fungal microbiology and drug repurposing.