Professor Joshua Siaw Boateng is currently a renounced Professor in Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery at the University Of Greenwich School Of Science in the United Kingdom. He completed his Bachelor of Pharmacy degree programme in the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, in June 1998 (with First Class Honours). He was picked by the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry (where he did his final year research project) for the 1998-1999 National Service. The National Service Scheme in Ghana is a one-year mandatory employment program introduced in 1973 as a requirement for tertiary graduates upon completion of their first degrees. Prof. Boateng served the scheme as a Teaching Assistant in Pharmaceutical Chemistry Laboratories.
He proceeded immediately after the National Service, to the University of Strathclyde in the United Kingdom to pursue graduate studies; he obtained MSc (Pharmaceutical Analysis) and PhD (Pharmaceutical Sciences) degrees in 2000 and 2005, respectively. He also took up a postdoctoral position (2005-07) at the Nottingham Trent University where he investigated surrogate biomarkers for detecting gene doping in sports, using mass spectrometry-based proteomic approaches.
As part of alumnus responsibility of “giving back to society”, Prof. Boateng decided to give back to his alma matter; for the past six years (except 2020 due to the covid-19 pandemic) Prof. Boateng has been visiting the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and offering valuable services to both lecturers and students. Among the topics, he lectures our undergraduate students are preformulation principles, formulation of pharmaceuticals, advanced drug delivery systems including nanotechnology, films, and hydrogels, and new trends in pharmaceutics. Prof Boateng bears the costs (air-tickets, lodging, and in-country traveling and feeding expenses) of his visits alone and has never demanded any remuneration from the University.
Prof. Boateng’s 2021 visit to the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences (host: Department of Pharmaceutics) started from the 26th of May to the 12th of June. He gave series of face-to-face and virtual (zoom) lectures to our undergraduate and graduate students. He also organized a seminar for senior members and graduates students on his research activities in the University of Greenwich; elaborating on research areas and equipment that may be of interest to us in Ghana and how collaborative links could be established to maximize our research in natural products to arrive at credible data/results for high impact publications.
Professor, we are looking forward to your next visit in 2022.