David Darko ObiriDepartment of Pharmacology,
Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences (FPPS), KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana.
Biography
Dr
. rer. nat.
David Darko
Obiri is a Pharmacist by profession. He g
raduated
B
achelor of
P
harmacy,
BPharm (Hons) and
M
aster of
P
harmacy (M.Pharm) from
the Kwame Nkrumah University of
Science
& Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.
In 2007, he registered as
a
PhD student in the lab of Prof.
Dr. A.C.B. Cato
in the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe (FZK) now the campus Nord of the
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (
KIT
)
, Germany
. He received his Dr. rer. nat. in 2010 from the
Uni
versity of Heidelberg, Germany and then worked as a Post
-
Doctoral Fellow in the
KIT
til
l 2011.
Currently
, he is
a Senior l
ecturer in Pharmacology
with
responsibility of
teaching pharmacology at
the undergraduate and graduate levels
.
He is the
Country Coordinator,
Western Africa Network of
N
atural P
roducts Research Scientists
(WANNPRESS)
His research
interests include
mast cell
signalling
and
the
pharmacology
of plants
and natural
products
with anti
-
inflammatory acti
on
Research Interest
Mast Cell Signalling and the pharmacology of plants and natural products with anti-inflammatory actions