Mayowa OWOLABI, MD, DrM, FAAN, FANA, FRCP, FAS, FAAS, FAMedS is a Professor of Neurology, and pioneer Director, Center for Genomic and Precision Medicine, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology, Royal College of Physicians, Academy of Medical Specialties, the Nigerian Academy of Science and African Academy of Sciences. He is an outstanding scientist with several inventions and innovations including the ‘Seed of Life Model’, ‘stroke quadrangle’, and ‘brain quadrangle’, ‘stroke levity scale’, ‘stroke recovery spiral’, and ‘implementation cycle’. He has over 330 publications with over 76,500 citations with a Google Scholar h-index of 70. He has led over 20 research and training grants in stroke including THRIVES, SIREN – the largest study of stroke in Africa, ARISES, SIBS-Genomics, and TALENTS. He is the pioneer Regional Vice-President, World Federation of NeuroRehabilitation (sub-Saharan Africa); African Regional Director, World Hypertension League (WHL), Foundation Co-Chair, African Stroke Organization and Rapporteur of the World Health Organization(WHO), Technical Advisory Committee on Non-Communicable Diseases (Research & Innovation). He is the Lead Co-Chair, WHO-World Stroke Organization (WSO)-Lancet Commission on stroke. He is the winner of the 2021 WSO Global Award for Outstanding Contributions to Clinical Stroke Research.