Prof. Christian Agyare officially assumes office as KNUST’s 13th Vice-Chancellor

Professor Agyare assumes office with more than two decades of experience in academia, research and university administration, having most recently served as Provost of KNUST's College of Health Sciences.

A Professor of Pharmaceutical Microbiology, he is internationally recognised for his research in natural products pharmacology, antimicrobial resistance, wound healing, ethnopharmacology, parasitology and anticancer drug discovery.

He later undertook postdoctoral and research appointments at Novartis/Seeding Labs in Boston and the University of California, San Francisco, where his work focused on pharmaceutical research and treatments for parasitic diseases.