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Professor of Clinical Microbiology and Immunotherapy | Dean, School of Allied Health Sciences | University of Cape Coast
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Subject Matter Expertise
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Clinical Trial Documentation,
Medical Writing,
Technical Writing
Consulting
Healthcare Consulting
Work Experience
Professor
University of Cape Coast
February 2022 - Present
Dean, School of Allied Health Sciences
University of Cape Coast
August 2021 - Present
Head of Department
University of Cape Coast
September 2010 - Present 
Fulbright Fellow
US CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (CDC), US PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
October 2022 - February 2023
Associate Professor
University of Cape Coast
February 2020 - January 2022
Vice-Dean
University of Cape Coast
August 2019 - July 2021
Senior Lecturer
University of Cape Coast
February 2016 - January 2020
lecturer
University of Cape Coast
September 2010 - January 2016
Education
Postgraduate Certificate in Tertiary Educational Leadership
Hochschule Osnabrück
May 2025 - February 2026
PhD Microbiological and Biochemical Pharmacy (Molecular Biology)
China Pharmaceutical University
September 2012 - June 2015
MSc. Clinical Microbiology (Clinical Microbiology)
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
August 2005 - February 2009
BSc. Biological Sciences (Department of Biomedical Sciences)
University of Cape Coast
August 1998 - May 2002
Certifications
Publications
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Desmond Omane Acheampong, Muzamil Mahdi Abdel Hamid, Mohamed Hassan Abdelraheem, Ishag Adam, Pedro Aide, Olusola Ajibaye, Mozam Ali, Jacob Almagro-Garcia, Alfred Amambua-Ngwa, Lucas Amenga-Etego, et al. (2025). Pf8: an open dataset of Plasmodium falciparum genome variation in 33,325 worldwide samples . Wellcome Open Research.
Desmond Omane Acheampong, Enoch Aninagyei, David Adedia, Gifty Larbi, George Abeiku Abbew, Isaac Tukwarlba, Comfort Addo Boatey, Benjamin Sarfo-Bempong, Sarita Kumar (2025). Factors Associated With Plasmodium falciparum Infection Transmission in Artisanal Mining and Mining‐Free Communities: The Case of Fanteakwa South District, Ghana . Journal of Parasitology Research.
Desmond Omane Acheampong, Mavis Puopelle Dakorah, Enoch Aninagyei, Juliana Attoh, Godwin Adzakpah, Isaac Tukwarlba (2025). Profiling antimalarial drug-resistant haplotypes in Pfcrt, Pfmdr1, Pfdhps and Pfdhfr genes in Plasmodium falciparum causing malaria in the Central Region of Ghana: a multicentre cross-sectional study . Therapeutic Advances in Infectious Disease.
Desmond Omane Acheampong, Juliana Attoh, Enoch Aninagyei, Godwin Kwakye-Nuako, Mavis Dakorah Puopelle, Isaac Tukwarlba, Justice Afrifa(2022). Immunochromatographic and microscopic detection of Plasmodium falciparum in recipients of P. falciparum-infected donor blood . Parasitology Research. 121. (5). p. 1455--1465. Springer Science and Business Media {LLC}
Attoh, J., Aninagyei, E., Kwakye-Nuako, G., Puopelle, M.D., Tukwarlba, I., Afrifa, J., Acheampong, D.O.(2022). Immunochromatographic and microscopic detection of Plasmodium falciparum in recipients of P. falciparum-infected donor blood . Parasitology Research. 121. (5). p. 1455-1465.
Dakorah, M.P., Aninagyei, E., Attoh, J., Adedia, D., Tettey, C.O., Kyei-Barffour, I., Acheampong, D.O.(2022). Ecological and seasonal variations and other factors associated with clinical malaria in the Central Region of Ghana: A cross-sectional study . Journal of Infection and Public Health. 15. (6). p. 631-637.
Ahmed, M.A., Ameyaw, E.O., Ackah-Armah, F., Acheampong, D.O., Gathumbi, P.K., Adinortey, M.B., Ghartey-Kwansah, G., Otsyina, H.R., Adokoh, C.K.(2022). In Vitro and in Vivo Toxicological Evaluation of Avicennia africana P: Beauv. (Avicenniaceae) Leaf Extract in a Rat Model . Journal of Toxicology. 2022.
Ahmed, M.A., Ameyaw, E.O., Ackah-Armah, F., Acheampong, D.O., Amoani, B., Ampomah, P., Adakudugu, E.A., Adokoh, C.K.(2022). In vitro and In vivo antimalarial activities of Avicennia africana P. Beauv. (Avicenniaceae) ethanolic leaf extract . Journal of Traditional and Complementary Medicine. 12. (4). p. 391-401.
Aninagyei, E., Tettey, C.O., Kwansa-Bentum, H., Boakye, A.A., Ghartey-Kwansah, G., Boye, A., Acheampong, D.O.(2022). Oxidative stress and associated clinical manifestations in malaria and sickle cell (HbSS) comorbidity . PLoS ONE. 17. (6 June).
Sarpong, E., Acheampong, D.O., Fordjour, G.N.R., Anyanful, A., Aninagyei, E., Tuoyire, D.A., Blackhurst, D., Kyei, G.B., Ekor, M., Thomford, N.E.(2022). Zero malaria: a mirage or reality for populations of sub-Saharan Africa in health transition . Malaria Journal. 21. (1).
Desmond Omane Acheampong, Enoch Aninagyei, Patrick Adu, Tanko Rufai, Paulina Ampomah, Godwin Kwakye-Nuako, Alexander Egyir-Yawson(2021). Effect of Asymptomatic Plasmodium falciparum Parasitaemia on Platelets Thrombogenicity in Blood Donors . Indian Journal of Hematology and Blood Transfusion. Springer Science and Business Media {LLC}
Desmond Omane Acheampong, Patrick Adu, Paulina Ampomah, Kwabena Obeng Duedu, Enoch Aninagyei(2021). Immunological, haematological, and clinical attributes of rural and urban malaria: a case–control study in Ghana . Journal of Parasitic Diseases. Springer Science and Business Media {LLC}
Desmond Omane Acheampong, Enoch Aninagyei, Ran Wang (2021). The Use of Screening Algorithm to Defer Blood Donors with Subclinical Malaria . Journal of Tropical Medicine.
Desmond Omane Acheampong, Alex Boye, Victor Yao Atsu Barku, Eric Gyamerah Ofori, Rui Liu (2021). Abrus precatorius Leaf Extract Reverses Alloxan/Nicotinamide‐Induced Diabetes Mellitus in Rats through Hormonal (Insulin, GLP‐1, and Glucagon) and Enzymatic (α‐Amylase/α‐Glucosidase) Modulation . BioMed Research International.
Boye, A., Barku, V.Y.A., Acheampong, D.O., Ofori, E.G.(2021). Abrus precatorius Leaf Extract Reverses Alloxan/Nicotinamide-Induced Diabetes Mellitus in Rats through Hormonal (Insulin, GLP-1, and Glucagon) and Enzymatic (α-Amylase/α-Glucosidase) Modulation . BioMed Research International. 2021.
Kyei-Barffour, I., Kwarkoh, R.K.B., Acheampong, D.O., Brah, A.S., Akwetey, S.A., Aboagye, B.(2021). Alkaloidal extract from Carica papaya seeds ameliorates CCl<sub>4</sub>-induced hepatocellular carcinoma in rats . Heliyon. 7. (8).
Kyei-Barffour, I., Kwarkoh, R.K.B., Arthur, O.D., Akwetey, S.A., Acheampong, D.O., Aboagye, B., Brah, A.S., Amponsah, I.K., Adokoh, C.K.(2021). Alkaloidal extract from Zanthoxylum zanthoxyloides stimulates insulin secretion in normoglycemic and nicotinamide/streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats . Heliyon. 7. (7).
Armah, F.A., Henneh, I.T., Amponsah, I.K., Biney, R.P., Malcolm, F., Alake, J., Ahlidja, W., Ahmed, M.A., Adokoh, C.K., Adukpo, G.E., et al.(2021). Antidepressant and Anxiolytic Effects and Subacute Toxicity of the Aerial Parts of Psychotria ankasensis J.B.Hall (Rubiaceae) in Murine Models . Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine. 2021.
Aninagyei, E., Ayivor-Djanie, R., Attoh, J., Dakorah, M.P., Ginko, M.N., Acheampong, D.O.(2021). Molecular detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in blood stained sputum samples using GeneXpert PCR assay . Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease. 100. (3).
Aninagyei, E., Nanga, S., Acheampong, D.O., Mensah, R., Boadu, M.N., Kwansa-Bentum, H.T., Tettey, C.O.(2021). Prevalence and risk factors of human Balantidium coli infection and its association with haematological and biochemical parameters in Ga West Municipality, Ghana . BMC Infectious Diseases. 21. (1).
Kyei Barffour, I., Acheampong, D.O.(2021). Prospect of reprogramming replication licensing for cancer drug development . Biomedicine and Pharmacotherapy. 136.
Kyei-Barffour, I., Addo, S.A., Aninagyei, E., Ghartey-Kwansah, G., Acheampong, D.O.(2021). Sterilizing Immunity against COVID-19: Developing Helper T cells I and II activating vaccines is imperative . Biomedicine and Pharmacotherapy. 144.
Acheampong, D.O., Baffour, I.K., Atsu Barku, V.Y., Addo, J.K., Essuman, M.A., Boye, A.(2021). Zanthoxylum zanthoxyloides Alkaloidal Extract Improves CCl<sub>4</sub>-Induced Hepatocellular Carcinoma-Like Phenotypes in Rats . Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine. 2021.
Aninagyei, E., Adu, P., Rufai, T., Ampomah, P., Kwakye-Nuako, G., Egyir-Yawson, A., Acheampong, D.O.(2021). Effect of Asymptomatic Plasmodium falciparum Parasitaemia on Platelets Thrombogenicity in Blood Donors . Indian Journal of Hematology and Blood Transfusion. 37. (4). p. 632-639.
Acheampong, D.O., Aninagyei, E.(2021). The Use of Screening Algorithm to Defer Blood Donors with Subclinical Malaria . Journal of Tropical Medicine. 2021.
Acheampong, D.O., Adu, P., Ampomah, P., Duedu, K.O., Aninagyei, E.(2021). Immunological, haematological, and clinical attributes of rural and urban malaria: a case–control study in Ghana . Journal of Parasitic Diseases. 45. (3). p. 806-816.
Desmond Omane Acheampong, Stephen Ocansey, Emmanuel Kwasi Abu, Carl Halladay Abraham, Andrew Owusu-Ansah, Samuel Bert Boadi-Kusi, Alex Azuka Ilechie(2020). Ocular Symptoms of SARS-CoV-2: Indication of Possible Ocular Transmission or Viral Shedding . Ocular Immunology and Inflammation. 28. (8). p. 1269--1279. Informa {UK} Limited
Desmond Omane Acheampong, Enoch Aninagyei, Patrick Adu, Alexander Egyir-Yawson, Zhipeng Xu (2020). Elevated IL‐12, TNF‐α, and TNF‐α/IL‐10 Ratios in Stored Plasmodium falciparum‐Infected Whole Blood: Implications for Safe Haemotransfusion . Journal of Immunology Research.
Aninagyei, E., Adu, P., Egyir-Yawson, A., Acheampong, D.O.(2020). Elevated IL-12, TNF-α, and TNF-α/IL-10 Ratios in Stored Plasmodium falciparum-Infected Whole Blood: Implications for safe haemotransfusion . Journal of Immunology Research. 2020.
Aninagyei, E., Duedu, K.O., Rufai, T., Tetteh, C.D., Chandi, M.G., Ampomah, P., Acheampong, D.O.(2020). Characterization of putative drug resistant biomarkers in Plasmodium falciparum isolated from Ghanaian blood donors . BMC Infectious Diseases. 20. (1).
Aninagyei, E., Tetteh, C.D., Oppong, M., Boye, A., Acheampong, D.O.(2020). Efficacy of Artemether-Lumefantrine on various Plasmodium falciparum Kelch 13 and Pfmdr1 genes isolated in Ghana . Parasite Epidemiology and Control. 11.
Acheampong, D.O., Owusu-Adzorah, N., Armah, F.A., Aninagyei, E., Asiamah, E.A., Thomford, A.K., Anyan, W.K.(2020). Ethnopharmacological evaluation of schistosomicidal and cercaricidal activities of some selected medicinal plants from Ghana . Tropical Medicine and Health. 48. (1).
Aninagyei, E., Abraham, J., Atiiga, P., Antwi, S.D., Bamfo, S., Acheampong, D.O.(2020). Evaluating the potential of using urine and saliva specimens for malaria diagnosis in suspected patients in Ghana . Malaria Journal. 19. (1).
Boye, A., Acheampong, D.O., Gyamerah, E.O., Asiamah, E.A., Addo, J.K., Mensah, D.A., Brah, A.S., Ayiku, P.J.(2020). Glucose lowering and pancreato-protective effects of Abrus Precatorius (L.) leaf extract in normoglycemic and STZ/Nicotinamide – Induced diabetic rats . Journal of Ethnopharmacology. 258.
Acheampong, D.O., Barffour, I.K., Boye, A., Aninagyei, E., Ocansey, S., Morna, M.T.(2020). Male predisposition to severe COVID-19: Review of evidence and potential therapeutic prospects . Biomedicine and Pharmacotherapy. 131.
Boye, A., Addo, J.K., Acheampong, D.O., Thomford, A.K., Asante, E., Amoaning, R.E., Kuma, D.N.(2020). The hydroxyl moiety on carbon one (C1) in the monoterpene nucleus of thymol is indispensable for anti-bacterial effect of thymol . Heliyon. 6. (3).
Ocansey, S., Abu, E.K., Abraham, C.H., Owusu-Ansah, A., Boadi-Kusi, S.B., Ilechie, A.A., Acheampong, D.O.(2020). Ocular Symptoms of SARS-CoV-2: Indication of Possible Ocular Transmission or Viral Shedding . Ocular Immunology and Inflammation. 28. (8). p. 1269-1279.
Desmond O. Acheampong, Isaac K. Barffour, Alex Boye, Ernest A. Asiamah, Francis A. Armah, Christian K. Adokoh, Joy F. Oluyemi, Benjamin Adrah, Richard Opoku, Emmanuel Adakudugu(2019). Histoprotective Effect of Essential Oil from Citrus aurantifolia in Testosterone-Induced Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia Rat . Advances in Urology. 2019. p. 1--14. Hindawi Limited
Desmond Omane Acheampong, Eben Godsway Dzodanu, Justice Afrifa, Isaac Dadzie(2019). Diagnostic Yield of Fluorescence and Ziehl-Neelsen Staining Techniques in the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis: A Comparative Study in a District Health Facility . Tuberculosis Research and Treatment. 2019. p. 1--6. Hindawi Limited
Asante, D.-B., Henneh, I.T., Acheampong, D.O., Kyei, F., Adokoh, C.K., Ofori, E.G., Domey, N.K., Adakudugu, E., Tangella, L.P., Ameyaw, E.O.(2019). Anti-inflammatory, anti-nociceptive and antipyretic activity of young and old leaves of Vernonia amygdalina . Biomedicine and Pharmacotherapy. 111. p. 1187-1203.
Acheampong, D.O.(2019). Bispecific antibody (Bsab) construct formats and their application in cancer therapy . Protein and Peptide Letters. 26. (7). p. 479-493.
Adokoh, C.K., Asante, D.-B., Acheampong, D.O., Kotsuchibashi, Y., Armah, F.A., Sirikyi, I.H., Kimura, K., Gmakame, E., Abdul-Rauf, S.(2019). Chemical profile and in vivo toxicity evaluation of unripe Citrus aurantifolia essential oil . Toxicology Reports. 6. p. 692-702.
Aninagyei, E., Smith-Graham, S., Boye, A., Egyir-Yawson, A., Acheampong, D.O.(2019). Evaluating 18s-rRNA LAMP and selective whole genome amplification (sWGA) assay in detecting asymptomatic Plasmodium falciparum infections in blood donors . Malaria Journal. 18. (1).
Quansah, E., Barnie, P.A., Acheampong, D.O., Obiri-Yeboah, D., Mills, R.O., Asmah, E., Cudjoe, O., Dadzie, I.(2019). Geographical distribution of β-lactam resistance among Klebsiella spp. From selected health facilities in Ghana . Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease. 4. (3).
Acheampong, D.O., Barffour, I.K., Boye, A., Asiamah, E.A., Armah, F.A., Adokoh, C.K., Oluyemi, J.F., Adrah, B., Opoku, R., Adakudugu, E.(2019). Histoprotective effect of essential oil from citrus aurantifolia in testosterone-induced benign prostatic hyperplasia rat . Advances in Urology. 2019.
Acheampong, D.O., Adokoh, C.K., Asante, D.-B., Asiamah, E.A., Barnie, P.A., Bonsu, D.O.M., Kyei, F.(2018). Immunotherapy for acute myeloid leukemia (AML): a potent alternative therapy . Biomedicine and Pharmacotherapy. 97. p. 225-232.
Aninagyei, E., Doku, E.T., Adu, P., Egyir-Yawson, A., Acheampong, D.O.(2018). Storage related haematological and biochemical changes in Plasmodium falciparum infected and sickle cell trait donor blood . BMC Hematology. 18. (1).
Acheampong, D.O., Tang, M., Wang, Y., Zhao, X., Xie, W., Chen, Z., Tian, W., Wang, M., Zhang, J.(2017). A novel fusion antibody exhibits antiangiogenic activity and stimulates NK cell-mediated immune surveillance through fused NKG2D ligand . Journal of Immunotherapy. 40. (3). p. 94-103.
Acheampong, D.O., Adokoh, C.K., Ampomah, P., Agyirifo, D.S., Dadzie, I., Ackah, F.A., Asiamah, E.A.(2017). Bispecific antibodies (bsAbs): Promising immunotherapeutic agents for cancer therapy . Protein and Peptide Letters. 24. (5). p. 456-465.
Chen, Z., Xie, W., Acheampong, D.O., Xu, M., He, H., Yang, M., Li, C., Luo, C., Wang, M., Zhang, J.(2016). A human IgG-like bispecific antibody co-targeting epidermal growth factor receptor and the vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 2 for enhanced antitumor activity . Cancer Biology and Therapy. 17. (2). p. 139-150.
Xu, M., Jin, H., Chen, Z., Xie, W., Wang, Y., Wang, Y., Wang, M., Zhang, J., Acheampong, D.O.(2016). A novel bispecific diabody targeting both vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 2 and epidermal growth factor receptor for enhanced antitumor activity . Biotechnology Progress. 32. (2). p. 294-302.
Tang, M., Acheampong, D.O., Wang, Y., Xie, W., Wang, M., Zhang, J.(2016). Tumoral NKG2D alters cell cycle of acute myeloid leukemic cells and reduces NK cell-mediated immune surveillance . Immunologic Research. 64. (3). p. 754-764.
He, H., Tu, X., Zhang, J., Acheampong, D.O., Ding, L., Ma, Z., Ren, X., Luo, C., Chen, Z., Wang, T., et al.(2015). A novel antibody targeting CD24 and hepatocellular carcinoma in vivo by near-infrared fluorescence imaging . Immunobiology. 220. (12). p. 1328-1336.
Zhao, X., Acheampong, D.O., Wang, Y., Tang, M., Xie, W., Chen, Z., Wang, M., Zhang, J.(2015). Efficient in Vitro refolding and characterization of major histocompatibility complex class I-related chain molecules A (MICA) and natural killer group 2 member D (NKG2D) expressed in E. coli . Protein and Peptide Letters. 22. (5). p. 460-469.
Xie, W., Li, D., Zhang, J., Li, Z., Acheampong, D.O., He, Y., Wang, Y., Chen, Z., Wang, M.(2014). Generation and characterization of a novel human IgG1 antibody against vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 2 . Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy. 63. (9). p. 877-888.
Li, H., Cao, W., Chen, Z., Acheampong, D.O., Jin, H., Li, D., Zhang, J., Wang, M.(2013). The antiangiogenic activity of a soluble fragment of the VEGFR extracellular domain . Biomedicine and Pharmacotherapy. 67. (7). p. 599-606.
Cao, W., Li, H., Zhang, J., Li, D., Acheampong, D.O., Chen, Z., Wang, M.(2013). Periplasmic expression optimization of VEGFR2 D3 adopting response surface methodology: Antiangiogenic activity study . Protein Expression and Purification. 90. (2). p. 55-66.
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