Professional Activities
Awards And Honors:
- 2014 Profiles in Excellence, Chicago State University, Chicago, Illinois
- 2012 Pharma Sciences Editors Choice Article (Extravasation of polymeric nanomedicines across tumor vasculature)
- Outstanding Reviewer of 2011 (Pharmaceutical Research)
- CGHS Travelship to 2011 AAPS Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (October 23-27)
- Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant in Pharmaceutics, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, 2010-2011
- Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant in Pharmaceutics, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, 2009-2010
- B.S. Awarded with First Class Honors, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, 2003
- Dean’s List, School of Engineering, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, 2001-2003
- National Scholarship Awarded to Outstanding Chemical Engineering Students, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, 1999-2000
Research Experience:
Doctoral Research: Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, 2007-2012 (research advisor: Dr. Ram I. Mahato)
- Combination therapeutic approaches for prostate cancer
- Polymeric nanomedicines for treating cancer
Masters Research: Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Kentucky, 2005-2007 (research advisor: Dr. Douglass Kalika)
- Investigation of the structure and relaxation dynamics of rubbery polymer networks
Post-Undergraduate Research: Department of Chemical Engineering, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, 2003-2004 (research advisor: Dr. Ben Adu-Amankwa)
- Design and development of low cost processes for the extraction of active pharmaceutical ingredients
(APIs) from medicinal plants