Dr. Kwabena Duedu

Kwabena joined BCU in 2023 as Associate Professor in Life Sciences having worked as Associate Professor in Biomedical Sciences in Ghana and a Global Health Fellow at the Novartis Institutes of Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA, United States. He completed his PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 2015. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher with the African Partnership for Chronic Disease Research (APCDR), University of Cambridge in 2016 as well as a TIBA Out of Africa Fellow with the University of Edinburgh. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology and an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Kwabena’s research broadly focuses on global infectious diseases and applied microbiology. His group investigates the epidemiology and mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance as well as the engineering of microbial systems for biomass conversion and low-cost diagnostics. Kwabena has led research projects and received awards from the British Council, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), the Novartis Institutes of Biomedical Research (NIBR), the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RSTMH), among others.

Kwabena has served on technical groups developing public health policies on antimicrobial resistance for the African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) as well as technical groups on antimicrobial resistance and COVID-19 for the Ministry of Health in Ghana. He collaborates and maintains links with colleagues at the University of St. Andrews, University of Edinburgh, University of Ghana, among others.