Biography:Omowunmi Sadik

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Short description: Nigerian professor, chemist, and inventor
Omowunmi Sadik
Omowunmi Sadik Speaker at Innovation Day 2010backlit.jpg
Born1964
Lagos, Nigeria
NationalityNigerian
Alma materUniversity of Lagos, Wollongong University
Scientific career
FieldsSurface chemistry, Environmental nanotechnology
InstitutionsBinghamton University

Omowunmi "Wunmi" A. Sadik (born 19 June 1964) is a Nigerian professor, chemist, and inventor working at Binghamton University. She has developed microelectrode biosensors for detection of drugs and explosives and is working on the development of technologies for recycling metal ions from waste, for use in environmental and industrial applications.[1] In 2012, Sadik co-founded the non-profit Sustainable Nanotechnology Organization.[2]

Early life and education

Sadik was born in 1964 in Lagos, Nigeria. Her family included a number of scientists, who supported her interests in physics, chemistry, and biology. She received her bachelor's degree in chemistry from the University of Lagos in 1985, and went on to receive her master's degree in chemistry in 1987. Sadik then attended Wollongong University in Australia. In 1994, she received her Ph.D. degree in chemistry from Wollongong.[3]

Career

A postdoctoral fellowship from the National Research Council supported her as a researcher at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from 1994 to 1996.[3] She then accepted a position as an assistant professor of chemistry at the Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York. She was promoted to associate professor in 2002, and full professor in 2005. At that time, she also became director of the Center for Advanced Sensors & Environmental Systems (CASE) at Binghamton. She has been visiting faculty at the Naval Research Laboratories, Cornell University, and Harvard University.[3]

Sadik studies surface chemistry, with particular emphasis on the development of biosensors for use in environmental chemistry.[3] She has found that conducting polymers are especially promising for use in sensing applications.[4][5] She has developed microelectrode biosensors sensitive to trace amounts of organic materials,[6] technology which can be used for drug and bomb detection.[7][8] She is also studying detoxification mechanisms of wastes such as organochlorine compounds in the environment, with the purpose of developing technologies for recycling metal ions from industrial and environmental waste.[9] In one project, microbial enzymes increased the conversion of highly toxic chromium (VI) to non-toxic chromium (III) from 40% to 98%.[10] Sadik is credited with more than 135 peer-reviewed research papers and patent applications. She holds U.S. patents on particular types of biosensors.[3] In 2011, she was the chair of the inaugural Gordon Conference on Environmental Nanotechnology.[11] In 2012, Sadik and Barbara Karn co-founded the Sustainable Nanotechnology Organization, a non-profit, international professional society for the responsible use of nanotechnology worldwide.[12]

Sadik is an elected fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2010) and of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (elected 2012). She is also a member of the American Chemical Society. She is involved with the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Science Foundation, and was part of the National Institutes of Health Study Panel on Instrumentation and Systems Development.[3] She is involved in international collaborations with the UNESCO International Center of Biodynamics in Bucharest, Romania, Ege University in Turkey, and the University of Fukui in Japan.[9]

Awards

  • 2000, National Research Council (NRC) COBASE fellowship[13]
  • 2001, Chancellor's Award for Research in Science and Medicine, SUNY[9]
  • 2002, Chancellor's Award for Premier Inventors, SUNY[9]
  • 2003–2004, Distinguished Radcliffe Fellowship from Harvard University[14]
  • 2005–2006, NSF Discovery Corps Senior Fellowship[15]
  • 2016, Nigerian National Order of Merit Award (NNOM)[16][17]
  • 2017, Jefferson Science Fellow[18]
  • Australian Merit Award[3]

References

  1. ↑ Woman.NG (2018-07-07). "How Omowunmi Sadik Keeps Breaking New Grounds In Scientific Research" (in en-US). http://woman.ng/2018/07/how-omowunmi-sadik-keeps-breaking-new-grounds-in-scientific-research/. 
  2. ↑ "Sadik bio". https://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/Jefferson/PGA_176873. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 "ScienceMakers : Omowunmi Sadik". http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/omowunmi-sadik. Retrieved 13 November 2015. 
  4. ↑ Sadik, Omowunmi A. (August 1999). "Bioaffinity Sensors Based on Conducting Polymers: A Short Review". Electroanalysis 11 (12): 839–844. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1521-4109(199908)11:12<839::AID-ELAN839>3.0.CO;2-1. 
  5. ↑ Sadik, Omowunmi A.; Brenda, Sharin; Joasil, Patrick; Lord, John (July 1999). "Electropolymerized Conducting Polymers as Glucose Sensors". Journal of Chemical Education 76 (7): 967. doi:10.1021/ed076p967. Bibcode: 1999JChEd..76..967S. 
  6. ↑ Sadik, Omowunmi A. (2009). "JEM Spotlight: Applications of advanced nanomaterials for environmental monitoring". Journal of Environmental Monitoring 11 (1): 25–26. doi:10.1039/B820365M. PMID 19137135. 
  7. ↑ "Sadik invited to give talk at NSF biochemical terrorism workshop". December 7, 2001. https://discovere.binghamton.edu/news/sadik-invited-to-give-talk-at-nsf-biochemical-terrorism-workshop-438.html. 
  8. ↑ Sadik, O. A.; Zhou, A. L.; Kikandi, S.; Du, N.; Wang, Q.; Varner, K. (2009). "Sensors as tools for quantitation, nanotoxicity and nanomonitoring assessment of engineered nanomaterials". Journal of Environmental Monitoring 11 (10): 1782–800. doi:10.1039/b912860c. PMID 19809701. 
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 "Faculty Spotlight: OMOWUNMI SADIK, Ph.D. ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, ANALYTICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY". http://research.binghamton.edu/faculty/SADIK/sadik.htm. Retrieved 13 November 2015. 
  10. ↑ Farrington, Keith (4 March 2010). "Interview: Monitoring the environment". Highlights in Chemical Technology Royal Society of Chemistry. http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/ChemTech/Volume/2010/03/omowunmi_sadik_interview.asp. Retrieved 21 November 2015. 
  11. ↑ "Omowunmi Sadik, SUNY-Binghamton : Nano". http://www.nano.gov/Sadik. Retrieved 13 November 2015. 
  12. ↑ SNO Sustainable Nanotechnology Organization (November 6, 2012). "First Sustainable Nanotechnology Organization Conference Program". http://www.susnano.org/images/SNO_Program2012.pdf. 
  13. ↑ "Omowunmi "Wunmi" Sadik". http://chemiris.chem.binghamton.edu/SADIK/sadik.htm. Retrieved 13 November 2015. 
  14. ↑ "Fellow: Omowunmi A.Sadik". https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/omowunmi-sadik. Retrieved 13 November 2015. 
  15. ↑ "NSF Announces New Discovery Corps Fellows". https://www.nsf.gov/mobile/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=104365&org=MPS. Retrieved 13 November 2015. 
  16. ↑ Katie Ellis (17 January 2017). "Sadik honored with Nigerian National Order of Merit Kudu". Binghamton University, State University of New York. https://www.binghamton.edu/inside/index.php/inside/story/16999/sadik-honored-with-nigerian-national-order-of-merit/. Retrieved 29 July 2017. 
  17. ↑ Idoko, Clement (November 25, 2016). "FG names Professors Omowunmi, Ojaide 2016 winners of NNOM award". Nigerian Tribune. https://www.tribuneonlineng.com/43152/. Retrieved 28 December 2018. 
  18. ↑ "2017 Jefferson Science Fellow". The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2017. http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/Jefferson/PGA_046613. Retrieved 29 July 2017. 




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