IRB Faculty

The Medical &
Scientific Research Directorate

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Dr. Emelia Oppong Bekoe

B. Pharm., M.Phil., PhD.

Senior Lecturer/ Department of Pharmacognosy and Herbal Medicine, School of Pharmacy, UG

eoppongbekoe@ug.edu.gh | +233-209-843392

Education

  • B. Pharm, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana (2005) 

  • MPhil, Pharmaceutical Microbiology: Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana (2009)

  • PhD in Pharmaceutical Biology and Phytochemistry: University of Muenster, Germany (2014)

Board Certifications

  • Pharmacy Council, Ghana 

Research Interest

Bioactivity guided investigations of herbal medicines, Mutagenic activity investigations,           Antimicrobial activities, Wound healing activities, Anti-helminthic activity, Standardization of herbal medicines, Monograph development for herbal medicines, Ethnobotany

Current projects
1.Mutagenic Investigations of herbal medicines 
2.Standardization of herbal medicines 
3. Ethnopharmacology  

Selected Publications

1.   Oppong Bekoe E, Dodoo KB, Kitcher C, Gordon A, Frimpong-Manso S, Schwinger G (2020). Pharmacognostic Characteristics and Mutagenic Studies of Alstonia boonei De Wild. Research Journal of Pharmacognosy (RJP) 7(1), 2020: 7-15.

2.    Oppong Bekoe E, Agyare C, Boakye YD, Baiden BM, Asase A, Sarkodie JA, Nettey H, Adu F, Out PB, Agyarkwa B, Amoateng P, Asiedu-Gyekye I, Nyarko A (2019). Ethnomedicinal survey and mutagenic studies of plants used in Accra metropolis, Ghana. Journal of Ethnopharmacology 248 (2020) 112309.   

3.    Kisseih E., Lechtenberg M., Petereit F., Sendker J., Brandt S., Agyare C., Hensel A. (2015). Phytochemical characterization and in vitro wound healing activity of leaf extracts from Combretum mucronatum Schum. & Thonn.: Oligomeric procyanidins as strong inductors of cellular differentiation. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 174:628 -636.

Get in touch
Email Addresses:
info-msrc@ugmc.ug.edu.gh