Dr. (Mrs.) Cynthia Amaning Danquah, a Senior Lecturer, Department of Pharmacology, of the College of Health Sciences (KNUST), has been awarded at the 7th Ghana Women of Excellence Awards in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the social and economic development of Ghana in the category of Tertiary Education and Scientific Research.

The awards organized under the auspices of the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection came off on the 5th March 2022 at the Coconut Grove Hotel in commemoration of International Women’s Day.

Dr. Cynthia Danquah 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 (KNUST) and she holds a certificate in Pharmacovigilance from the University of Groningen, Netherlands.

She was recently awarded the Africa Oxford Research Development Award (£50,000) 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 the resistance to tuberculosis (TB).

Her research interest spans natural product drug discovery, antimicrobial resistance, infectious diseases, natural product pharmacology, and toxicology. She is also a recipient of the KNUST Research Fund (KREF) Interdisciplinary award and KREF Seed grant, 2019. She is an Affiliate of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS), American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Country ambassador, British Pharmacological Society (BPS) member, and a member of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana (PSGH).

Dr. Amaning Danquah has participated in several international conferences and workshops across the globe including London, Glasgow, Birmingham, in the UK; Washington DC, San Diego California, and Ohio Northern in the USA; Copenhagen, Denmark; Chatenay-Malabry, France; Düsseldorf, Germany; Geneva, Switzerland in Europe; Senegal, Burkina Faso, Nigeria and Cote d’Ivoire in West Africa.

She is a reviewer for international academic journals including Nature Scientific Reports; Elsevier’s Phytochemistry Letters, Tuberculosis, MDPI, and Scientific African.

The Management of the College of Health Sciences, KNUST congratulates Dr. (Mrs.) Cynthia Amaning Danquah for winning this prestigious award.