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KNUST Commissions a Dual-Purpose Dental Clinic

Professor (Mrs.) Rita Akosua Dickson Commissions a Dual-Purpose Dental Clinic

The Vice-Chancellor, Professor (Mrs.) Rita Akosua Dickson and the Management of the University have commissioned a Dental Clinic at the University Hospital on 10th October 2021. The Clinic will provide comprehensive oral care to members of the University Community and serve as a training facility for medical students.

Published: 11 Oct 2021 General News
KNUST Research - Cloth Masks Less Effective

Cloth Masks, Less Effective in Protecting People Against COVID-19: KNUST Research Findings Reveals

According to a study undertaken by final-year undergraduate students from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology's Departments of Medical Diagnostics and Clinical Microbiology, medical masks are more effective than cloth masks in protecting people against microbial pathogen infection.

Published: 06 Oct 2021 General News
Professor Nathaniel Boso

KNUST Academic Appointed Extraordinary Professor at University of Pretoria

Professor Nathaniel Boso has been appointed as an extraordinary Professor at the University of Pretoria's Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) by the Governing Council of the University of Pretoria (UP).

Published: 05 Oct 2021 General News
KNUST - World Economic Forum

KNUST Student Named Top Innovator of the Year by the World Economic Forum

A third-year student of the Department of Communication Design, Mathias Charles Yabe has been named the Top Innovator and selected among the 14 winners in the Generation Restoration Challenge by the World Economic Forum. The young Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of AkoFresh, received this honour out of 170 competitors from 50 countries on 22nd September 2021.

Published: 05 Oct 2021 General News
Capacity Building for Website Managers

URO Builds the Capacity of Website Managers to Enhance KNUST’s Visibility 

A two-day intensive news writing camp for all College Website Managers, University Relations Office (URO) staff, and Focus Fm volunteers was held on the 27th and 28th of September 2021.

Published: 04 Oct 2021 General News
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Rapid, simple, inexpensive high-throughput antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) in natural product drug discovery and tackling antibiotic resistance in global infectious diseases.

Current evidence of increasing failure to antimicrobial therapy due to drug resistance may be leading us potentially into a post-antibiotic era, and thus threaten the advances made in medicine (Carlet et al., 2012). The worldwide surge in resistant bacteria and the paradoxical downward trend in the development of new antibiotics simultaneously have serious implications.

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Dr Cynthia Amaning Danquah

Dr (Mrs) Cynthia Amaning Danquah

BPharm (Hons), MPhil (Pharmacology), PhD (London), MPSGH

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KNUST On Youtube

Emefa, a Covid-19 Ambassador of KNUST educates KNUST students and the entire University Community on the need to observe the Covid-19 Protocols outlined by the University.

 

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Twi Medical Glossary; for Clinical Students & Health Workers

Twi Medical Glossary; for Clinical Students & Health Workers

The College of Health Sciences in collaboration with The Department of Modern Languages, KNUST co... Read more