Prof. Chinedum O. Eleazu
Dean, Faculty of Biological Sciences
Chinedum Ogbonnaya Eleazu is a Professor of Clinical and Nutritional Biochemistry and currently, the Dean of the Faculty of Biological Sciences, Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu-Alike, Ebonyi State, Nigeria. He obtained his B.Sc. degree in Biochemistry in 2003, M.Sc. degree in Clinical Biochemistry in 2009 and PhD degree in Nutritional Biochemistry in 2015, all from the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, Abia State, Nigeria. He commenced his Research career as a Research officer at the National Root Crops Research Institute Umudike, Abia State, Nigeria in June, 2008 where he worked until September, 2015. During this period, he did a number of in vitro and in vivo studies that reported the antioxidant and hypoglycaemic actions of Nigerian medicinal plants and foods.
In October 2015, he joined the services of the Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu-Alike, Ebonyi State as a lecturer 1 where he grew through the ranks to become a full Professor in December, 2025. Prof. Eleazu’s research interests are: diabetes, obesity, metabolic syndrome, benign prostatic hyperplasia, antioxidants, nutaceuticals, and in these areas, he has published several articles in reputable journals that are indexed in several electronic data bases including pubmed, scopus, clarivate analytics and which articles have received over 4000 citations with a hinary index (H index) of 32 as recorded by google scholar. In 2018, Prof. Eleazu was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship by the University Sains Malaysia (USM) to study the effect of Malaysian Bee bread on biochemical, oxidative stress, inflammatory and apoptotic markers in the muscle and kidney of obese animal model. During his post doctoral study at USM, Prof. Eleazu received several awards for publishing in Q1 and Q2 journals.
In 2019, Prof. Eleazu received a National Prize from the Nigerian Young Academy for his contribution to the Health Sciences. He was also listed by SciVal (Scopus) amongst 500 top authors (187th spot) in Nigeria (first in AE-FUNAI) for the period of 2014 to 2019 and in the 2022 Edition of ranking of scientists by AD Scientific Index, he was ranked first in his university. He was further listed by Elsevier/Stanford University amongst top 2% of World Best in 2023 and 2024. Prof. Eleazu is a member of the Nigerian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, the American Society for Nutrition and the African Society of Science Editors.
He previously served in the Editorial Board of the World Journal Diabetes (2025 impact factor: 5.1@ Clarivate Analytics). He currently serves as a peer reviewer to several reputable journals such as: Journal of Food Biochemistry (John Wiley), American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Pharmaceutical Biology (Taylor and Francis), Biomedicine and Pharmacotherapy (Elsevier), Clinical Nutrition (Elsevier), Journal of Functional Foods (Elsevier), Food Science and Nutrition (John Wiley), Food Chemistry (Elsevier), Food and Chemical Toxicology (Elsevier), African Health Sciences, International Journal of Biological Macromolecules (Elsevier), Journal of Food Measurement and Characterization (Springer), British Journal of Nutrition (Cambridge University Press), Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry (Elsevier), Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry (American Chemical Society) and others.
He also currently serves as an Editor of Discover Toxicology (Springer Nature) and has also attracted several grants to carry out his research.
He is happily married.
