Research Interest: Drug Delivery; Pharmaceutics; Nanoparticles; Transdermal; microemulsions; vesicles; modelling; docking.

Research Interest: Pharmaceutical organic chemistry and Pharmaceutical analytical chemistry; Development of chromatographic and immunoassay methods for analyzing different pharmaceutical compounds in biological fluids which could be used in bio-studies.  drug-drug interactions and drug-juice interaction and on the synthesis of some Barbituric acid and Imidazole derivatives and their application in pharmaceutical products. NMR, X-ray, LC/MS, HPLC and ELISA.

Research Interest: Medicinal chemistry,Histology and Embryology.

Research Interest: Synthesis of novel heterocycles as anticancer agents; Computer Aided Drug Design.

Research Interest: Heterocyclic chemistry dealing with Pyrazole, 1,2,4-Triazine.

Research Interest: "Luminescent probes; Computational structural biology; Structure-based drug design; Inorganic medicine "

Research Interest: Medicinal Chemistry and Natural products: isolation, structure determination, biotransformation, synthesis of structural analogues, biological valorization, structure activity relationship.Heterocyclic Organic Synthesis and biological valorization.

Research Interest: Asymmetric synthesis, total synthesis of natural products, multi-component reactions, heterocyclic synthesis and green chemistry

Research Interest: Ion selective electrodes techniques,Voltammetric techniques,Spectrophotometric techniques,Chemometric techniques for simultaneous determination of mixtures.

Research Interest: Natural Products Chemistry, Polymer Chemistry,Environment & Health,Medicinal Chemistry.

Research Interest: New approaches for the anticancer therapies, enzyme inhibitors as a new drugs, including new antibacterial drugs, inhibitors of proteolytic enzymes as a new drug generation.

Research Interest: Physical and organic chemistry; Photochemistry; Organic synthesis; Photo-catalysis; Chemo-sensors

Nelson O. Etafo is a doctorate graduate of the and a CONAHCYT fellow in the department of material science and Technology department, facultad de ciencias químicas, Universidad Autonoma de Coahuila, Saltillo Coahuila México under the supervision of Dr Carlos Eduardo Rodriguez Garcia and Dr Jorge Oliva Uc. He has research experience in Photoluminescence and photodegradation properties of Inorganic solid hosts with lanthanides as dopants. He has skills in structural simulations, morphological (SEM & TEM), optical and Photoluminescence properties.

Further research skills in rubber compounding and characterization with potential application. He has attended more than 5 International and local conferences to present his investigations. He has publications in reputable journals like Elservir, etc.

He is also a member of association such as American Chemical Society (ACS), Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), and Chemical Society of Nigeria (CSN). He is also the founder of "The chemistry class with Nelson Etafo", a Facebook page with over 46,000 followers.

He is a Nigerian-born Educator who has taught chemistry at various level and served as examiner with National bodies like WAEC, NECO. He was a Chemistry Tutor in The Bridge College and Cambridege Standard Institute, both sister schools in Abeokuta Ogun state Nigeria for 7 years with exceptional academic results including IGCSE and CIE Chemistry.

He was also a highly in-demand chemistry consultant to schools like Foursquare international secondary school, and Elyon Leadership College Academy, both in Abeokuta Ogun state Nigeria etc. Nelson is a critical thinker, with collaboration and problem solving skills

Photoluminescence, photocatalysis