I welcome you to the Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, College of Medicine of the University of Lagos.

The Department of Anatomy, which began as the Department of Morphological Sciences, has been in existence since 1962.

The Department started its operation, with four members of staff including one lecturer and one technologist under the headship of Prof. W. Haines. Today, I am proud to say that our staff strength has increased to twenty-nine, among which are fourteen lecturers, nine technical staff, and five administrative staff.

Over the years, the teaching of Anatomy which started with only Medical students, has extended to include Dental, Physiotherapy, Physiology, Pharmacy, Pharmacology, Radiography, Medical Laboratory Sciences, Nursing Sciences, and only recently, Biomedical Engineering, and Human Kinetics and Health Education. In the nearest future, we plan to include a B.Sc. program in Anatomy

The Department is also involved in the teaching and training of Postgraduate students, which began in 1980. Many graduates of this program, are making us proud both locally and internationally. In fact, most of our Academic staff are products of this Postgraduate training.

Members of staff are also actively engaged in research activities, and research findings are presented in conferences, and published in Peer-reviewed journals, both local and international.

A number of Academic staff are involved in interdisciplinary and cross-border collaborations and these have attracted both local and international grants to the Department and the University as a whole. The Department is poised with increasing the visibility of the University of Lagos, through quality research outputs.

Our scopes of research are in the fields of Molecular and Cell Biology, Neuroanatomy, Reproductive Biology, Embryology, Reproductive Endocrinology, Developmental Biology, Andrology, Neurobehavioral Studies, Neuroendocrinology and Anthropometry.