Meet The Speakers: Professor Gordon Awandare

Gordon Awandare is the Pro Vice-Chancellor responsible for Academic and Students Affairs at the University of Ghana. He is a Professor of Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology and the Founding Director of the West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP).

He obtained his BSc. Biochemistry and MPhil Biochemistry degrees from the University of Ghana, and a Ph.D. in Infectious Diseases and Microbiology from the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He did his postdoctoral fellowship at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Maryland.

He led the establishment of WACCBIP as one of the World Bank’s African Centres of Excellence. Subsequently, WACCBIP has provided fellowships to over 350 Scientists from 15 African countries for Master’s, doctoral and postdoctoral training.

He is a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Royal Society of Biology, UK, and the recipient of the Royal Society Pfizer award 2015.