Dr (Mrs) Lilian Antwi Boateng is a senior lecturer and an early career researcher in the Department of haematology and immunohematology Unit of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana since 2012. She is currently the Head of the Medical Diagnostics Department of KNUST. She supervises and undertakes research in general and immunohaematology. She teaches haematology and immunohaematology in the undergraduate programmes in Medical Laboratory Technology, Emergency nursing and veterinary Medicine and on the postgraduate MPhil and PhD programmes in the Department of Medical Diagnostics. Lilian’s aspiration in the long term is to progress professionally as a national and international haematology/immunohaematology research leader.

Lilian holds a PhD in Blood transfusion from the University of Liverpool and a Master of Science with distinction in Biomedical Science from the University of Westminster, United Kingdom. She obtained her Bachelor’s degree with first-class honours in Medical Laboratory Technology from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana. She also undertook a six months residency programme in blood banking at the University of Michigan and the University of Michigan blood bank reference laboratory as a fellow of the University of Michigan African Presidential Scholars Programme (UMAPS). Her PhD is focused on optimising blood transfusion practices in sickle cell patients in Sub Saharan Africa.

Dr. Boateng has been the recipient of three scholarships; KNUST-UOW Bespoke scholarship, UMAPS scholarship and Commonwealth PhD scholarship.

Since the beginning of her career as a researcher, she has won five research grants, KNUST Research Fund, AREF Research Development fund, Netherlands Ministry of Health grant, the DANIDA Building Stronger Universities seed grant and Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) seed grant. All grants have sought to promote and optimise transfusion practises in Ghana. Lilian also partnered with the Department of Pathology, University of Utah to pilot the development of antibody screening cells for antibody testing in Ghana based on the local donor population. She has also been involved in different general haematology projects which sought to understand malaria and its mechanisms and also to establish reference ranges of the various haematological parameters based our local population, since these ranges have shown variation within different populations. She has co-authored over 20 peer reviewed articles and 15 conference proceedings. She has received several invitations to present at both local and international conferences in the diaspora and serves as reviewer for several renowned transfusion journals.

 She is a member of the University Teachers’ association of Ghana (UTAG), Allied Health Professionals council (AHPC) of Ghana and Ghana Association of Biomedical Laboratory Scientist (GABMLS). She is the immediate past Africa representative of the young professionals Council of the International Society of Blood Transfusion.

Lilian is passionate about promoting good haematology laboratory practices and blood transfusion research in Ghana and imparting evidence-based laboratory transfusion practices to students pursing laboratory training in blood transfusion.