En 1991, she returned to Ibadan University where from 1991 to 1994 she was Head of Department of Chemical Pathology and served as an honorary Consultant at the University College Hospital, Ibadan.

[3]​ Her specialty was the analysis of lípidos in cardiovascular disease and her comparison of lipid metabolism confirmed that cholesterol levels are not a product of race, but rather diet and exercise levels.

[1]​ Taylor was inducted into the Nigerian Academy of Science in 1997,[5]​ as the second woman to have ever been honored as an inductee.

[1]​ In 1998, the L'Oréal-UNESCO prize was launched to award one woman from each of five regions—Africa and Arab states, Asia-Pacific, Europe, Latin America, North America—for their scientific achievement and contributions to improving humanity.

[6]​[7]​ In 2012, she was honored by the Ekiti State Government for her contributions to mentoring and teaching medical students.