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Alexander Kwarteng

Senior Lecturer in Immunology of Infectious Diseases, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)

My background is in molecular biomedicine and I have invested several years of research in host-pathogen interaction. In addition to this, I have been involved in a number of studies that focus on the microbiome in parasite infections in Ghana. However, the increasing prevalence of infectious diseases in Ghana and other African countries ignited my passion to focus on the use of bioinformatics tools to understand underlying genomic and immunology presentations of diseases and other medical conditions, as well as the use of social determinants to understand how people perceive the disease. I am excited to contribute to the training of postgraduates and postdoctoral fellows.

Experience

  • –present
    Lecturer in Immunology of Infectious Diseases, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

Education

  • 2015 
    University of Bonn, PhD/Molecular Biomedicine

Honours

CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar [Humans & the Microbiome], Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Scholar