Dr. Stephen Kwaku Amoah
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About

Stephen has over a decade cumulative experience of teaching and research in the university with graduate level training spanning MPhil, PhD, and postdoctoral levels. His teaching fields involve human Anatomy disciplines (histology, embryology, and gross anatomy) and neuroscience. Research fields span non-coding RNAs of microRNAs and circular RNAs, exosome, cell culture, immunohistochemistry, cytochemistry, rodent models and drug formulation and administration. Research interest include brain-immune/peripheral axis, maternal/placental/immune/brain axis, and peripheral organs. Conditions of interest: psychosis, cerebral palsy, obesity, diabetes mellitus, prenatal inflammation, maternal immune activation, oxidative stress and antioxidant interventions. Stephen is interested in the use of patient samples, appropriate models from molecular, cellular, to organ-systems to study brain and peripheral organs in health and disease and diet and pharmacological agents.

Focus & expertise

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Recent activity

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Fellowship Jan 2022

HBNU Fogarty Global Health Fellowship

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Fellowship Jan 2021

Postdoctoral Fellowship Division of Neonatology

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Award Jan 2019

Research Travel grant

Background

🎓 Education & qualifications

Master of Philosophy in Human Anatomy

University of Ghana

2008

Career & positions

Head of Department

Department of Anatomy

Aug, 2023 to Aug, 2025

Publications 23 works

ORCID 0000-0001-5486-6027 →

2025

Molecular characterization of soybean accessions using ssr markers and unveiling the genetic diversity

Theophilus Achina, Francis Anti Amoako, Stephen Amoah, Benjamin Karikari et al.

Molecular Biology Reports · Article · 2 citations · Source: OpenAlex

The placenta as a window into neonatal brain injury

Elmira Bachinsky, Lauren Guyer, Riddhi Patel, Stephen Amoah et al.

Seminars in Perinatology · Article · 1 citation · Source: OpenAlex + ORCID

418 Factors associated with HIV amongst migrant MSM in Europe

Anne Flaherty-gupta, Denis Onyango, Trésors Gemaye Kouadio, Christos Krasidis et al.

European Journal of Public Health · Article · Source: OpenAlex

Genome-wide association study identifies novel genomic regions associated with yield-related traits in cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz)

Bright Gyamfi Adu, Richard Akromah, Stephen Amoah, Andrzej Kilian et al.

Research Square · Preprint · Source: OpenAlex

2023

Prenatal alcohol exposure results in brain region- and sex-specific changes in circHomer1 expression in adult mouse brain

Grigorios Papageorgiou, Stephen Amoah, Caroline Pierotti, Madison Otero et al.

Frontiers in Neuroscience · Article · 9 citations · Source: OpenAlex + ORCID

Screening of maize inbred lines and evaluation of hybrids for their resistance to fall armyworm

Stephen Asare, Alexander Wireko Kena, Stephen Amoah, Benjamin Annor et al.

Plant Stress · Article · 8 citations · Source: OpenAlex

IMPACT OF ANTIPSYCHOTICS ON EXOSOME-SECRETED MICRORNA, MIR-223 ON GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR EXPRESSION IN NEURONS AND ASTROCYTES.

Stephen Amoah, Nikolaos Mellios

IBRO Neuroscience Reports · Article · Source: OpenAlex

2022

A bidirectional competitive interaction between circHomer1 and Homer1b within the orbitofrontal cortex regulates reversal learning

Alexander Hafez, Amber Zimmerman, Grigorios Papageorgiou, Jayapriya Chandrasekaran et al.

Cell Reports · Article · 55 citations · Source: OpenAlex + ORCID

Assessment of the Clinical Presentations and Ultrasonographic Features of Uterine Fibroids in Adult Africans: A Retrospective Study

Emmanuel Kobina Mesi Edzie, Klenam Dzefi‐Tettey, Edmund Kwakye Brakohiapa, Abubakari Bawah Abdulai et al.

Oman Medical Journal · Article · 6 citations · Source: OpenAlex

2021

Placental mediated mechanisms of perinatal brain injury: Evolving inflammation and exosomes

Alexander R Gall, Stephen Amoah, Yuma Kitase, Lauren L. Jantzie

Experimental Neurology · Article · 47 citations · Source: OpenAlex + ORCID

2020

A psychiatric disease-related circular RNA controls synaptic gene expression and cognition

Amber Zimmerman, Alexander Hafez, Stephen Amoah, Brian A. Rodriguez et al.

Molecular Psychiatry · Article · 169 citations · Source: OpenAlex + ORCID

Prenatal Alcohol Exposure Results in Sex-Specific Alterations in Circular RNA Expression in the Developing Mouse Brain

Praveen Paudel, Caroline Pierotti, Evelyn Lozano, Stephen Amoah et al.

Frontiers in Neuroscience · Article · 23 citations · Source: OpenAlex + ORCID

A Psychiatric Disease-Related Circular RNA Controls Synaptic Gene Expression and Cognition

Amber Zimmerman, Alexander Hafez, Stephen Amoah, Michela Dell’Orco et al.

Biological Psychiatry · Article · 2 citations · Source: OpenAlex

A Bi-Directional Competitive Interaction between CircHomer1 and Homer1b within the Orbitofrontal Cortex Regulates Reversal Learning

Alexander Hafez, Amber Zimmerman, Grigorios Papageorgiou, Jayapriya Chandrasekaran et al.

SSRN Electronic Journal · Preprint · Source: OpenAlex

2019

Exosomal secretion of a psychosis-altered miRNA that regulates glutamate receptor expression is affected by antipsychotics

Stephen Amoah, Brian A. Rodriguez, Constantine Logothetis, Praveen Chander et al.

Neuropsychopharmacology · Article · 94 citations · Source: OpenAlex + ORCID

Dysregulated In Psychiatric Disorders Circular RNAs Interact With Rna Binding Proteins To Regulate Synaptic Plasticity

Jason P. Weick, Brian A. Rodriguez, Stephen Amoah, Michela Dell’Orco et al.

European Neuropsychopharmacology · Article · 1 citation · Source: OpenAlex

F163. A Psychiatric Disease-Related Circular RNA Controls Neuronal Function and Cognition

Jason P. Weick, Amber Zimmerman, Stephen Amoah, Brian A. Rodriguez et al.

Biological Psychiatry · Conference-abstract · Source: OpenAlex

T123. A Psychosis-Altered Glial-Produced miRNA Downregulates Neuronal Gene Expression via Exosomes

Stephen Amoah, Brian A. Rodriguez, Tracylyn R. Yellowhair, Constantine Logothetis et al.

Biological Psychiatry · Conference-abstract · Source: OpenAlex

2018

Impact of HIV knowledge and stigma on the uptake of HIV testing – Results from a community-based participatory research survey among migrants from sub-Saharan Africa in Germany

Anna Kuehne, Carmen Koschollek, Claudia Hövener, Adama Thorlie et al.

PLoS ONE · Article · 28 citations · Source: OpenAlex

Human cerebral organoids reveal deficits in neurogenesis and neuronal migration in MeCP2-deficient neural progenitors

Nikolaos Mellios, Danielle Feldman, Steven D. Sheridan, Jacque Pak Kan Ip et al.

Molecular Psychiatry · Article · 15 citations · Source: OpenAlex

2017

MeCP2-regulated miRNAs control early human neurogenesis through differential effects on ERK and AKT signaling

Nikolaos Mellios, Danielle Feldman, Steven D. Sheridan, Jacque Pak Kan Ip et al.

Molecular Psychiatry · Article · 314 citations · Source: OpenAlex + ORCID

2012

Prolonged ingestion of dietary cocoa attenuates hemoglobin glycation associated with diabetes mellitus in rats.

Stephen Amoah, Ayokunle Osonuga, F.T. Djankpa, O.A. Osonuga et al.

Article · 4 citations · Source: OpenAlex

Determination of the vibration perception threshold (VPT) in adult non-diabetic Ghanaians using a Neurothesiometer

F.T. Djankpa, Festus Komla Adzaku, A. Osunuga, A.G.B. Amoah et al.

Article · Source: OpenAlex

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Honors & affiliations

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Research Travel grant
Department of Neuroscience, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA · 2019
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HBNU Fogarty Global Health Fellowship
National Institute of Health · 2022
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Postdoctoral Fellowship Division of Neonatology
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine · 2021

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