Address: Room 1, Ground Floor, New Building, School of Pharmacy, University of Ghana Legon
Tel: +233-(0)267-410-383/ +233-(0)55-398-7111
Email: miclartey@ug.edu.gh; m.lartey@gmail.com
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6779-7999
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Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=zQEq-sEAAAAJ&hl=en
Majority of the populace in third world countries depend on herbal medicines for the management and treatment of diseases. However, standardization of herbal medicines with respect to levels of mycotoxins, persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and metallic toxins is a huge global challenge. This project seeks combine machine learning tools with bioanalytical techniques to predict, assess and quantify levels of adulterants, metals, mycotoxins and POPs in herbal medicines.
Antimicrobial drug resistance is a major global health problem with debilitating medical, social, emotional and economic effects on patients, healthcare providers as well as patient dependents. However, the development of new antimicrobial agents has stalled due to poor financial incentives for the pharmaceutical industry and tighter regulations for new drugs. Ionic liquids are known to possess biocidal properties and can be developed as sentry drugs to improve activity of existing drugs. However, toxicity of ionic liquids is a big challenge in the development of biocidal agents. This projects focuses on the design, synthesis, characterization of new ILs with improved toxicity profile and enhanced activity for the treatment of neglected tropic diseases.
Education
2012 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Organic/Polymer Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA.
2005 Master of Science (MSc), Applied Polymer Science, Faculty of Engineering Sciences, Martin-Luther-University, Halle (Saale), Sachsen Anhalt, Germany.
2000 Bachelor of Science (BSc), Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.
2021- 2023 Senior Lecturer, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, School of Pharmacy, University of Ghana, Accra.
2017 - 2021 Lecturer, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, School of Pharmacy, University of Ghana, Accra.
2014 - 2017 Lecturer, Department of Chemical Sciences, School of Science, University of Energy and Natural Resources, Sunyani.
2011 – 2013 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, National Energy Technology Laboratory, United States Department of Energy, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
2012 – 2013 Visiting Scholar, Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
2005 – 2011 Teaching and Research Assistant, Department of Chemistry, College of Natural Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
2003 – 2005 Research Assistant, Department of Applied Polymer Science, Faculty of Engineering Sciences, Martin-Luther-University of Halle Wittenberg, Faculty of Engineering Sciences, Halle (Saale), Sachsen Anhalt, Germany.
11/2022 – 01/2023 Acting Head, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, School of Pharmacy, University of Ghana
2018 - 2023 Examinations Officer, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, School of Pharmacy, University of Ghana, Accra.
2021 - 2022 Chief Invigilator, School of Pharmacy, University of Ghana
03-09/2022 Acting Examinations Officer, School of Pharmacy, University of Ghana, Accra.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lwt.2022.113498.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.46829/hsijournal.2021.6.2.1.181-188.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C4NJ01220H.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/pola.26723.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C3CP43923B.
Member, American Chemical Society, 2008 - Present
Member, Ghana Science Association, 2014 – Present