Samuel E. Adunyah is Professor and Chair of Biochemistry at MMC. He received a Ph.D. in Biochemistry at the University of Louisville followed by postdoctoral research training at the University of New Mexico and the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

After serving as a faculty member at Alabama for one year, he was appointed as Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at MMC in 1991. Dr. Adyunyah's laboratory has attracted independent funding since 1992, primarily from the NCI. Dr. Adunyah has published over thirty full papers in peer reviewed journals. In addition, he has published and presented over forty abstracts in domestic and international scientific meetings. A majority of these presentations were at AACR meetings.

Dr. Adunyah has been active in the training of minority graduate students who have had successful records in obtaining competitive postdoctoral research or industry positions.

Dr. Adunyah served as the chairman of the biochemistry department at Meharry from April 1998 to June 2005 and is currently chairman of the MMC Cancer Biology Division. He has managed several external grants including the current NCI supplement for the MMC/VICC Alliance. He also manages a T32 Training grant from the NHLBI, which totals about one million dollars. During the 1999/2000 academic year, he served as the chairman of the council of basic science chairs, which was appointed by the dean of School of Medicine.