The UGMC Board
Professor Solomon Fiifi Ofori-Acquah is a renowned academician and researcher, a professor of Medical Laboratory Science, and an Associate Professor of Medicine and Human Genetics. He is the outgoing Dean of the School of Biomedical Allied Health Sciences at the University of Ghana.
He holds a Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics and an MSc in Bio-molecular Organisation from the University of London, a Fellowship from the Institute of Biomedical Science in the UK, and an Executive Leadership Certificate from Emory University, Atlanta, USA.
His research interests are in the molecular pathogenesis, genetics, and innovative therapy of acute complications of SCD.
Prof. Ofori-Acquah recently won a $3 million research grant to sequence the whole genome DNA of children with sickle cell disease in Ghana, which he has parlayed to launch the Gh-Genome project. He has served on multiple national and international scientific and technical committees, He was a member of the National Technical Advisory Committee for Newborn Screening, and more recently the African Health Diagnostic Platform (AHDP) Technical Committee, both under the Ministry of Health (MOH). Prof. Ofori-Acquah is also the Founding Director of the West African Genetic Medicine Centre (WAGMC), the Programme Director of the Sickle Cell Genomics of Africa (SickleGenAfrica) Network, and Director of the Ghanaian Genome (Gh-Genome) Project.
Prof. Ofori-Acquah recently won a $3 million research grant to sequence the whole genome DNA of children with sickle cell disease in Ghana, which he has parlayed to launch the Gh-Genome project. He has served on multiple national and international scientific and technical committees, He was a member of the National Technical Advisory Committee for Newborn Screening, and more recently the African Health Diagnostic Platform (AHDP) Technical Committee, both under the Ministry of Health (MOH). Prof. Ofori-Acquah is also the Founding Director of the West African Genetic Medicine Centre (WAGMC), the Programme Director of the Sickle Cell Genomics of Africa (SickleGenAfrica) Network, and Director of the Ghanaian Genome (Gh-Genome) Project.
The Sickle Cell Foundation of Ghana (SCFG) has recently appointed Prof. Ofori-Acquah as its President.