Mrs. Boateng has been an early career lecturer and researcher in the haematology and immunohaematology Unit of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana since 2012. She is currently pursing a PhD in transfusion medicine with the Internation Public Health Department of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom. Lilian holds an MSc in Biomedical Science (haematology/immunoihaematology option) from the University of Westminster, UK and a BSc. in Medical Technology Laboratory from KNUST, Ghana. She has a 6 months fellowship training in  blood bankin from the University of Michigan blood bank reference laboratory. Since the beginning of her career as a researcher, she has won two grants, DANIDA building streonger univeristy seed grant and University of Michigan STEM seed grant. All grants were channelled into advancing blood transfusion medicine in Ghana