Prof. Isaac Ayensu obtained his Bachelor of Pharmacy degree (First Class) (2000) and MSc Pharmaceutical Analysis and Quality Control (2003) from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. He was appointed a lecturer at the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, KNUST. He undertook PhD research in Pharmaceutical Sciences under a Commonwealth Scholarship at the University of Greenwich, graduating from 2009-12. Subsequently, he returned to Ghana to continue with his teaching and research activities.

Prof. Ayensu has enhanced his leadership capacity by having further studies at IDL, KNUST, graduating with Commonwealth Executive Masters in Public Administration (CEMPA) in 2015. Prof Ayensu is a former three-time Head (2014-2017), Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, immediate past Head of Department of Herbal Medicine (Aug. 2022) and he is currently back as Head of the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry. He actively maintains his research interests and has published extensively, presented at several national and international conferences as well as a reviewer for several peer reviewed international journals.

Since returning to Ghana after obtaining a PhD degree in the UK and subsequent promotion to the position of a Senior Lecturer and Associate Prof., he has strongly pursued the establishment of links between Academia and Industry which has led to the improvement in the quality of training offered to PharmD, MPhil and PhD students. Prof. Ayensu is a Commonwealth Fellow (2017) and a recipient of Seeding Labs Instrumental Access Award (2018). The knowledge, skills and competences developed through the fellowship are relevant to the Ghanaian Pharmaceutical Industry for enhancing their research and development (R&D) capacity and reinforcing the cordial relationship and collaborations that currently exist between academia and industry. Prof. Ayensu has used his extensive knowledge in medicine quality control to support the training of Medical Herbalists as well as Traditional Medicine Practitioners to improve on quality of herbal products on the Market. To this end, the quality of medicines produced are being enhanced to combat the menace of substandard medicines on the Ghanaian Market which is on the increase and presents significant dangers to the health of vulnerable groups such as children and pregnant mothers.

Prof. Ayensu is the current Chairman of the Academic, Social and Research Pharmacists Association and thus serves as a member of the Governing Board of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana. In addition, he is a Governing Board member of the Traditional Medicine Practice Council.

Prof. Ayensu is married to Mrs Olivia Ayensu and the couple are blessed with four children.