N
igerian Scientist, Dr. Emmanuel Chukwuemeka Opara, has been admitted into the Fellowship of the American Institute of Medicine and Biological Engineering, AIMBE.
In a letter, the AIMBE confirmed that Opara, who is a Professor and Graduate Programme Director, Regenerative Medicine/Biomedical Engineering, Wake Forest School of Medicine, has been elected to its College of Fellows.
Opara was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the College of Fellows for exceptional contributions to use of alginate microbeads for cell therapy and drug delivery.
Born in Lagos, of Igbo parents in 1951, Opara attended the Government College Umuahia, and the University of Nigeria Nsukka, where he studied biochemistry, graduating in 1976.