Professor Antonia Tetteh Biography, Head of Department For KNUST Biochemistry ; Professor Antonia Tetteh began her career as a Biochemist and Food Science and Agricultural Chemist at Kwame National University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi in 1992. She earned a BSc in Biochemistry and then moved on to Plant Breeding and Genetics with a minor in Biotechnology in 2003.
She continued her education at McGill University in Canada, where she earned a master’s degree in food science and agricultural chemistry. In 2005, she began work on a Ph.D. in Horticultural Science at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina, with a major in Plant Breeding and Genetics and minors in Biotechnology and Statistics.
Professor Antonia Tetteh was hired as a biotechnology Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the same university’s Biomanufacturing Research Institute and Technology Enterprise (BRITE).
She returned to KNUST in 2009, and her research themes have encompassed maize genetics and biotechnology, particularly diversity in climate change adaptive traits; breeding with genomics in the bast fiber crops of Ghana, biotechnology in retting of the bast fiber crops; and biotechnology of amylase production from amylolytic bacteria.
Her teaching covers both undergraduate courses, such as Biophysics, Methods in Plant Tissue Culture; and graduate courses, namely, Agricultural Biotechnology, Population and Quantitative Genetics, and Crop Improvement Technologies.
Her service to the Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology includes Head of Department, Graduate Programme Coordinator, chairperson of departmental quality assurance, and many more. She has served on several boards in the University and is currently the Vice Dean of the Faculty of Biosciences.
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Her national activities include ;
- A member of the curriculum review committee for Diploma programmes in the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, College of Midwifery and Nursing,
- Nalerigu; member of and curriculum review committee for Ph.D. Plant Breeding and Biotechnology of the Crops Research Institute of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
- Fumesua; an assessor for the National Accreditation Board.
Her international activities include
External Examiner for University of Kwazulu Natal, South Africa ,Curriculum development meetings on MSc Cultivar Development in Kenya and an AWARD mentor. Antonia is a member of the Ghana Science Association, member of the African Plant Breeding Association; Crop Science Society of America, Association of American University Women, the American Association of Horticultural Science.