Temidayo is a Pharmacologist/Toxicologist with focus on the pharmacology of natural products/compounds used in the ethnotherapy of cancers and inflammatory conditions. He had his undergraduate degree in Pharmacy and graduated (with distinction) from Obafemi Awolowo University in 2008; Masters in Pharmacology (Toxicology) (with distinction) from the University of Lagos (2011) and currently on a PhD in cancer pharmacology at the University of Lagos.

During the course of his PhD, he won the University of Lagos Doctoral Assistance Grant (2017) and the Visiting Fellowship of the Biochemical Society (UK) (2016); with these grants he visited Liverpool John Moores University (UK) to use advanced in-vitro models to further investigate the role of identified natural products in cancers.