Boatemaa Ofori-Frimpong
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Boatemaa’s research interest is in diabetes, focusing on biomarkers for novel therapeutic targets. Boatemaa is involved in learning and teaching activities within the Department of Biological and Biomedical Science.
In 2007, Boatemaa completed a BSc (Hons) Medical Laboratory Technology at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Ghana. Boatemaa worked as an Intern Biomedical Scientist at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) from 2007 until 2008, assisting in the diagnosis of health conditions. Boatemaa was interested in understanding the molecular mechanisms of diseases and therefore pursued higher education in MSc Biomolecular and Biomedical Science at Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) from 2008 until 2009.
Boatemaa was awarded a GCU PhD Studentship and Scottish Overseas Student Association (SORSA) Scholarship (2009-2012) within the area of Cell and Molecular Biology in Patricia Martin’s lab to investigate Connexin and Pannexin cellular communication in obesity. Also, in the Martin lab and in collaboration with Zealand Pharma, Denmark, Boatemaa investigated novel peptides targeting connexin function (2012-2013).
As a Postdoctoral Research Assistant (2014-2016) in GCU’s Vision Science Department, Boatemaa investigated Narrow Spectrum Kinase inhibitors in Dry Eye Disease within Suzanne Hagan’s lab in collaboration with TopiVert Pharma, London.
Returning from a career break in 2019, Boatemaa worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher with Dr Patricia Martin (GCU) and Prof Gail McConell (University of Strathclyde) to investigate diabetic skin whole-mount tissue image analysis.
Since 2019, Boatemaa has been the Curator of the GCU Skin Research Tissue Bank which provides well-annotated normal and diabetic tissue samples to support research into human skin disease. Boatemaa is also part of the STEM network at GCU.