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Taiwo Olayemi Elufioye is a Nigerian pharmacologist. Elufioye conducts research and is a senior lecturer in the department of pharmacognosy at the University of Ibadan's Faculty of Pharmacy. Elufioye is also a Fulbright Scholar at University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, PA, where she is investigating drugs for neurodegenerative diseases.

Research
Elufioye's research is focused on compounds that could be used to treat malaria, wounds, memory loss, leprosy and cancer. Elufioye is published in the African Journal of Biomedical Research, Pharmacognosy Research, the International Journal of Pharmaceutics, and the African Journal of Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicines.

Honors and awards
In 2014, Elufioye was one of five women who won the Elsevier Foundation Awards for Early Career Women Scientists in the Developing World. Elufioye won the award for her work on the pharmacological properties of Nigerian plants. The Elsevier Foundation Awards included a prize of $5,000 and an all-expense-paid trip to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting in Chicago. When she won the award, the Vice Chancellor at the University of Ibadan, Isaac Adewole, said that Elufioye's accomplishments "would inspire other women in science" and that she is "a pride of Nigeria and the African continent as a whole."

Personal life
Elufioye was born into an educated family where her mother was a teacher and her father was an administrator at a university. Her entire family, including her siblings have attended college.