Professor Cynthia Amaning Danquah, is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. She obtained her PhD from the School of Pharmacy, University College London, United Kingdom. Her MPhil Pharmacology and B Pharm degrees were obtained from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana and she holds a certificate in Pharmacovigilance from the University of Groningen, Netherlands. She is a registered Pharmacist and a member of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana.
Prof Amaning Danquah was recently awarded the Africa Oxford Research Development Award to collaborate with the University of Oxford, United Kingdom on natural product drug discovery to tackle antibiotic resistance and develop new antibacterial agents to fight resistance in tuberculosis (TB). She is also a recipient of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Research Fund (KREF) Interdisciplinary and Seed grant, 2019. An Affiliate of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS); Country Ambassador for the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) and member of the British Pharmacological Society (BPS). She is a visiting scholar/research to the University of Nottingham and University of Oxford.
She has participated in several international conferences across the globe including London, Glasgow, Birmingham in United Kingdom; Washington DC, San Diego California and Ohio Northern in the United States of America; Copenhagen, Denmark; Düsseldorf, Germany; Geneva, Switzerland in Europe; Senegal, Burkina Faso and Nigeria in West Africa. She is a reviewer for international academic journals including Nature Scientific Reports; Elsevier’s Phytochemistry Letters, Tuberculosis, MDPI, and Scientific African.
