IRB Faculty
The Medical &
Scientific Research Directorate
Dr. Thelma Ohene-Agyei
PhD
Lecturer, Department of Pharmacy Practice & Clinical Pharmacy
tohene-agyei@ug.edu.gh | +233-20-5518153 |
Education
- BPharm (Pharmacy): Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana (2007)
- MPhil Pharmacology: Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana (2010)
- PhD in Pharmacology: University of Cambridge, UK (2015)
Research Interest
My research interests focus on development of efflux pump inhibitors from plant sources in antimicrobial resistance, pharmacotherapy of infectious diseases and health seeking behaviours of patient.
Selected Publications
1. Kretchy, I.A., Koduah, A., Ohene-Agyei, T., Boima, V. and Appiah, B., 2020. The Association between Diabetes-Related Distress and Medication Adherence in Adult Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Cross-Sectional Study. Journal of Diabetes Research, 2020.
2. Mbaye, R., Gebeyehu, R., Hossmann, S., Mbarga, N., Bih-Neh, E., Eteki, L.,Ohene-Agyei, T., ... & Haberer, J. (2019). Who is telling the story? A systematic review of authorship for infectious disease research conducted in Africa, 1980–2016. BMJ global health, 4 (5), e001855.
3. Venter H, Mowla R, Ohene-Agyei T, Ma S (2015): RND-type drug efflux pumpsfrom Gram-negative bacteria: molecular mechanism and inhibition. Frontiers in Microbiology 6 (377)
4. Ohene-Agyei T, Mowla R, Rahman T, Venter H (2014): Phytochemicals increase the antibacterial activity of antibiotics by acting on a drug efflux. Open Microbiology 3(6): 885-896
5. Ben Luisi, Dijun Du, Zhao Wang, Nathan James, Jarrod Voss, Ewa Klimont, Wah Chiu, Thelma Ohene-Agyei, and Henrietta Venter (2014): The structure of a complete multidrug efflux pump. Structure of the AcrAB-TolC multidrug efflux pump. Nature (509): 512-515
6. Thelma Ohene-Agyei, John Lea, Henrietta Venter (2012): Mutations in MexB that affect the efflux of antibiotics with cytoplasmic targets. FEMS Microbiology Letters 333 (1): 20-27
2. Mbaye, R., Gebeyehu, R., Hossmann, S., Mbarga, N., Bih-Neh, E., Eteki, L.,Ohene-Agyei, T., ... & Haberer, J. (2019). Who is telling the story? A systematic review of authorship for infectious disease research conducted in Africa, 1980–2016. BMJ global health, 4 (5), e001855.
3. Venter H, Mowla R, Ohene-Agyei T, Ma S (2015): RND-type drug efflux pumpsfrom Gram-negative bacteria: molecular mechanism and inhibition. Frontiers in Microbiology 6 (377)
4. Ohene-Agyei T, Mowla R, Rahman T, Venter H (2014): Phytochemicals increase the antibacterial activity of antibiotics by acting on a drug efflux. Open Microbiology 3(6): 885-896
5. Ben Luisi, Dijun Du, Zhao Wang, Nathan James, Jarrod Voss, Ewa Klimont, Wah Chiu, Thelma Ohene-Agyei, and Henrietta Venter (2014): The structure of a complete multidrug efflux pump. Structure of the AcrAB-TolC multidrug efflux pump. Nature (509): 512-515
6. Thelma Ohene-Agyei, John Lea, Henrietta Venter (2012): Mutations in MexB that affect the efflux of antibiotics with cytoplasmic targets. FEMS Microbiology Letters 333 (1): 20-27