Samuel Acquah was appointed Lecturer in January, 2008 to the Department of Medical Biochemistry, School of Medical Sciences,University of Cape Coast. He obtained his B.Sc. Biochemistry degree from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, in 2002. He subsequently graduated from Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium with M.Sc. Food Science and Nutrition in 2004 and a second M.Sc. degree in Molecular Biotechnology (Medical Option) in 2005 from the same University. In April, 2014, he obtained his doctorate degree in Zoology (parasitology) from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana,on the topic ‘Effects of Falciparum malaria on levels of selected biomarkers of cardiovascular disease risk in type 2 diabetics and non-diabetic controls’.

Samuel Acquah was promoted to the rank of Senior Lecturer in April, 2012. With more than a decade experience of teaching and research at the University of Cape Coast, Dr. Samuel Acquah has taught several courses and supervised a number of undergraduate project works. He has examined a number of theses as an Internal Examiner at the postgraduate level. From 2008 to 2013, he served as an External Examiner for Nutrition, Food Science and Technology and General Biochemistry to the respective Departments of Hotel, Catering and Institutional Management and Agriculture, Sunyani Technical University, Sunyani, Ghana. He served as the School Registration Officer from 2009 to 2012 and the Head of department for the Department of Medical Biochemistry, School of Medical Sciences from August, 2012 to July, 2017. Currently, he is the Vice-Dean of the School of Medical Sciences and serves on a number of Committees and Boards in the University.

Dr. Acquah’s current research focuses on how malaria influences the development of type 2 diabetes mellitus with the view to gaining an in-depth understanding of the contribution of Falciparum malaria to the upsurge of type 2 diabetes mellitus in malaria-endemic regions of the globe. He also has an interest in long-term consequence of infectious diseases in general on the health and well-being of the affected and how the interaction between infectious and chronic non-infectious diseases impact on the development of chronic diseases. He is a reviewer to several journals in the area of diabetes research, malaria and infectious diseases. He has a number of publications in peer-review journals to his credit.

Prof. Samuel Acquah