Professor Dame Ijeoma Uchegbu

President of Wolfson College, Cambridge

Ijeoma is an inventor, Professor of Pharmaceutical Nanoscience at UCL, and President of Wolfson College, University of Cambridge. She is a fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, a governor of the Wellcome Trust and Chief Scientific Officer of Nanomerics Ltd, a company that she co-founded. She 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.