Dr. (Mrs.) Cynthia Amaning Danquah has won the ‘Tertiary Education and Scientific Research’ category of the 7th Ghana Women of Excellence Awards in recognition of her outstanding contribution to social and economic development. The Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) received the honour on Saturday, 5th March, 2022 at the Coconut Grove Regency Hotel, North Ridge, Accra.
The Ghana Women of Excellence Award is organised under the auspices of the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection. The award ceremony is in commemoration of International Women’s Day themed, ‘Empowering the Ghanaian Woman for National Development.’ The primary objective of the Award Scheme is to motivate Ghanaian women to strive for excellence in their various walks of life and to take their rightful places in the national development process.
Dr. (Mrs.) Danquah is a Visiting Scholar/Research Associate at several overseas universities, including the University of Oxford, University of Nottingham, Birbeck, University of London, and Kings College London all in the United Kingdom. She is also a Pharmacist Preceptor for the Roseman University of Health Sciences, Nevada, USA.
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. (Mrs.) 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, and Scientific African.
The Management of KNUST congratulates Dr. (Mrs.) Cynthia Amaning Danquah for winning this prestigious award.