Professor Cynthia Amaning Danquah, is an Associate Professor in Pharmacology and the current head of the Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana. She obtained her PhD in Natural Product Drug Discovery from the School of Pharmacy, University College London, United Kingdom. Her MPhil. Pharmacology and B. Pharm degrees were obtained from KNUST, and she holds a certificate in Pharmacovigilance from the University of Groningen, Netherlands. She is a registered Pharmacist, a member of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana and a Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry.