Samuel Asare-Nkansah is an Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana. He obtained both his Bachelor of Pharmacy and Master of Science in Pharmaceutical Analysis and Quality Control  degrees from the KNUST, Kumasi, and studied for a doctoral degree in Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany