Dr. Patrick Kobina Arthur is Head of Research & Training at WACCBIP. He obtained his PhD in Developmental Biochemistry at the University of Gà¶ttingen in Germany. He has undertaken several post-doctoral fellowships at the University of Maryland – College Park, USA, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETH-Zurich) and the Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge in the UK.
His research activities are in the area of Chemical Systems Biology of Infectious Pathogens that comprises Infection Biology of Tuberculosis, etc, Chemical Biology of Fungal Metabolites, Advanced Imaging Techniques and Mass Spectrometry based Proteomics of the perturbations caused in infectious pathogens by novel bioactive compounds.
The mission of Dr. Arthur's research is towards the discovery and development of new antibiotics against tropical infectious diseases. Towards the discovery of the novel anti-infective agents, his research group has presently isolated and screened more than three thousand distinct fungal species.
