Prof. Agbaje is a scientist and a researcher with interest in malaria chemotherapy, vascular smooth muscle pharmacology and natural products. She had her first degree in Pharmacology, at the College of Medicine of the University of Lagos, Lagos-Nigeria in 1985. She proceeded to obtain the M. Phil and Ph. D. degrees in 1989 and 1999 respectively. Over the years, she had mentored over 400 undergraduates, 100 postgraduate and 10 doctoral students working both in academic, research and industry. She is a member of West African Society of Pharmacology, Society of medicinal plant and natural products research (GA). Prof. Agbaje has published well over 75 publications in reputed national and international journals. She has won and managed four research grants and travel awards.

Prof. Esther Agbaje’s research focus is on exploration of medicinal plants for possible pharmacological and toxicological properties, with the aim of taking the laboratory-investigated, validated, and approved pharmaceuticals to bed-side.

Her various research thrusts have led to the discovery of some invaluable plant products possessing high efficacies in the management of disease conditions such as peptic ulcer, ulcerative colitis, hypertension, malaria and diabetes mellitus.

NAFDAC recently, towards the end of last, year gave an approval to patent one of the phytoconstituents of a plant co-investigated with her Ph. D. student. The plant was discovered to be very useful in the treatment of diabetes mellitus in humans.