The Fifth Ghana Biomedical Convention (GBC) 2012, ended on a very good note for the Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, KNUST with two 2012 BSc Graduates sharing in all the awards.

Amos Kwabena Dwamena won the Joint Best Student-Oral Presentation Award for his undergraduate thesis work on “paternity profiling of children of families selected from Bomso in the Kumasi metropolis using ABO blood grouping and DNA fingerprinting”.

The other award, the Joint Best Student Poster, was won by Roseline Ngozi Okoro (student) and Richard Fordjour Oppong (National Service Person-Teaching & Research Assistant) for the undergraduate thesis work on “Heavy Metallic and Microbial Contamination of Vegetables cultivated on refuse dump sites in Kumasi”. The two students were presented with certificates. They are students of Dr. Peter Twumasi, working in the recently established Molecular Biology Laboratory of the Department.

In a related development, the Ashanti Regional Office of the National Service Scheme (NSS) has honored Richard Fordjour Oppong as BEST TEACHER in the Tertiary Category in a maiden edition of awards ceremony for service persons who have distinguished themselves with dint of hard work throughout the 2011/2012 National Service year. He received a single door Samsung refrigerator and a certificate as prize for the award.