Obafemi Awolowo University

Obafemi Awolowo University is a large, comprehensive public research university in Ile-Ife, Nigeria, with more than 32,000 students. Its campus combines a teaching and research farm, shared laboratories, technical workshops, and the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex, enabling collaboration across academic, clinical, and operational settings. The Central Office of Research supports proposal development, grants administration, ethics, and external partnerships, while the Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer Office handles IP protection, licensing, consultancy, and commercialization. Research support includes Nigeria’s Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), alongside competitive national and international funding.