Yaw Opoku-Damoah
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Biography
Yaw Opoku-Damoah is a PhD Researcher at the Chinese Academy Sciences, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica. He has received his Masters in Pharmaceutics from the China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, China. As part of his National Service, he has worked with the Import and Export Control Department of the Food and Drugs Authority, Ghana, West Africa before being awarded a Joint Chinese Government Scholarship/Ghana Government Scholarship to pursue Postgraduate studies in Pharmaceutics. His research is focused on biopharmaceutics, nanotechnology, drug delivery and theranostics. He is specifically interested in the use of nanotheranostics for site-specific delivery and diagnosis of tumors. He has publications in high impact factor journals such as Biomaterials and Theranostics.