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