Graduate Students

Biography

Kofi is a PhD student working on atypical Human African Trypanosomiasis (a-HAT). His research focuses on finding the occurrence of potentially zoonotic parasites and the effect of these parasites on human health. In 2019, he visited the Chemistry and Biology Lab at University of Bremen on an exchange program to study ‘Molecular Diagnostics in Tropical Medicine’ with focus on Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification (LAMP) of DNA. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Applied Biology from University for Development Studies and an MPhil in Microbiology from KNUST where he studied ‘Soil transmitted helminthes and urinary tract infections in pre-school children.”

Project:

Occurrence of potentially zoonotic parasites and the effect of these parasites on human health

Kofi Agyapong Addo

Email:

addo.k.agyapong@gmail.com

biography

Thomas is a doctoral student pursuing parasitology and immunology at KNUST. His research areas include molecular and parasite immunology and currently working on developing “An infectious bite marker for sensitive malaria detection and population level surveillance”. Thomas holds a BSc in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology and MPhil in Parasitology. Before joining the Vector-Borne Pathogens Research Group, Thomas participated in several projects and notably among them are “Circulating Endothelial Progenitor Cells and the pathogenesis of cerebral malaria in children” and placental malaria at the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR) under the supervision of Professor Ben Gyan.

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Thomas Kwame Addison

Email:

 thomaskwameaddison@yahoo.com

Biography

Hakim is a PhD student at the Vector-Borne Pathogens Research Group. He is currently working with a collaborator in Ohio State University to develop a new paper-based immunoassay platform for malaria diagnosis that utilizes antigen/antibody interactions for biomarker capture from untreated biofluids. Prior to this, he has been studying malaria transmission at the community level in Ghana across all the transmission settings. In particular, he has evaluated the accuracy of the available diagnostic tools both in the peripheral health centres where there is no electricity to the sophisticated laboratories where gene amplifications are done. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Biological Science and Master’s degree in Microbiology, both acquired in KNUST.

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Abdul-Hakim Mutala

Email:

hakima830@gmail.com

Biography

Austine holds MPhil degree in Parasitology obtained from KNUST. During this program, he investigated the transmission of trypanosomiasis in cattle and pigs and blood meal analysis of tsetse flies. He visited the Biology and Chemistry laboratory at the University of Bremen, Germany for optimization of molecular diagnostic tools for tropical diseases. He completed with BSc. Biological Sciences at KNUST and served his one-year mandatory national service as a Teaching Assistant at the Department of Theoretical and Applied Biology. He is currently serving as a research assistant on Malaria project being run at the Kumasi Center for Collaborative Research (KCCR).

 

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Austine Tweneboah

Email:

tweneboahaustine@gmail.com

Biography

Kwasi Baako is a Masters student with the Vector-Borne Pathogens lab with a BSc (Hons) in Biological Sciences from KNUST. His interest is particularly in molecular parasitology and is currently working on the resistance of Plasmodium falciparum to Sulphadoxine pyrimethamine, which is used as prophylaxis against malaria in pregnant women. This study basically aims at looking at the single-nucleotide polymorphisms of the Plasmodium falciparum species currently in Ghana and how it points to a potential resistance to Sulphadoxine pyrimethamine.

 

 

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Kwasi Baako Antwi

Email:

baako209@gmail.com

Biography

Stephen is a postgraduate student at the Vector-Borne Pathogens Lab. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences and currently pursuing MPhil Parasitology at KNUST. Stephen has vast experience with regards to malaria research. For his undergraduate, Stephen investigated impact of malaria parasitemia on selected hematological parameters among rural and urban communities around Kumasi. His current research focuses on malaria diagnostics where he seeks to evaluate the performance of an automated microscope for malaria diagnosis.

 

 

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Stephen Opoku Afriyie

Email:

stephenopoku12@gmail.com

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