Samuel Achilefu bụ onye ọkà mmụta sayensị amụrụ na Naijiria na onye nyocha ahụike nke sụrụ ụzọ nyocha ma tinye n'ọrụ na sayensị, injinia na ọgwụ.  Dr. Samuel Achilefu bụ Michel M. Ter-Pogossian Prọfesọ nke Radiology na osote onye isi oche maka Innovation na entrepreneurship na Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine.  Ọ na-ejide nhọpụta nkwonkwo dị ka prọfesọ nke Medicine, Biochemistry Ọ na-eje ozi ugbu a dị ka onye isi ụlọ ọrụ Molecular Imaging Center nke Mahadum Washington na mmemme Theranostic Innovation nke a na-enweta na nzuzo.  Ọ bụ onye nduzi nke Center for Multiple Myeloma Nanotherapy na onye ndu nke Oncologic Imaging Programme nke Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center na Mahadum Washington. Dọkịta Achilefu bụ onye otu National Academy of Inventors yana ọtụtụ ọha ọkachamara, gụnyere Royal Society of Chemistry, [akwụkwọ akụkọ chọrọ] American Association for the Advancement of Science, Optical Society of America, International Society for Optics na  Photonics Engineers (SPIE), American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, na St. Louis Academy of Science.