Cynthia Amaning Danquah
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Also at University of Health and Allied Sciencesfrom their recent papers
Publishing since 2009, latest 2026
PROFILE OF PROFESSOR CYNTHIA AMANING DANQUAH BPharm, MPhil (Kumasi), PhD (London), MPSGH, MRSC Professor Cynthia Amaning Danquah, is an Associate Professor in Pharmacology and current head of the Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana. She obtained her PhD in Natural Product Drug Discovery from the School of Pharmacy, University… More on ORCID
- Organic Chemistry
- Molecular Biology
- Pharmacology
- Plant Science
- Food Science
- Pharmacology
In their own words
- Antimicrobial Resistance
- Natural product drug discovery
- Inflammopharmacology
- Infectious diseases
- Publications
- 822009–2026
- Citations
- 856to those papers
- h-index
- 16i10-index 36
- Field-weighted impact
- 1.751.00 is the world average
- World top 10%
- 24%14 of 58 scored papers
- Open access
- 93%54 of the 58 whose access is recorded
16 other works — preprints, datasets and the like — are listed but not counted.
Google Scholar shows 888 citations, h-index 17 and i10-index 36 (711 citations and h-index 16 since 2021), as of October 10, 2026. It also counts theses, books and web pages, so it runs higher.
By year
Papers, and the citations to them
Publications, left axisCitations to that year’s papers, right axis2026 still in progress
Positions
- Head of Pharmacology, Department of PharmacologyKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology College of Health Sciences: Kumasi, Ashanti, GH2023–2025
- Associate Professor in Pharmacology, Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical SciencesKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology College of Health Sciences: Kumasi, Ashanti, GH2021–2025
- Senior Lecturer, Department of PharmacologyKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology College of Health Sciences: Kumasi, Ashanti, GH2014–2021
- lecturer, Department of PharmacologyKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology College of Health Sciences2009–2014
Education
Publications
82 in all
- β-Lactam antibiotics and β-lactamases: historical perspectives and a review of β-lactamase inhibitors derived from natural products
2026Natural Product ReportsJournalOpen access6 citations10.1039/d5np00081e
- Exploring the immunomodulatory activities of Scoparia dulcis extract against lipopolysaccharide-induced allergic inflammation in mice through suppression of innate pro-inflammatory cytokines, COX-2 and iNOS signalling pathways