Ijeoma Uchegbu is Professor of Pharmaceutical Nanoscience at University College London, President of Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, an inventor, and an educator. She is a fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, a governor for Wellcome Trust and Chief Scientific Officer of Nanomerics Ltd, a company that she co-founded. She has held a variety of leadership positions in science including serving as Chairperson of the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences and has appeared on BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour, Desert Island Discs, BBC Outlook and been featured in the Guardian and Daily Telegraph. In 2025 she was made Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in the New Year Honours.
