Mohamed Mutocheluh is an Associate Professor and the head of the Department of Clinical Microbiology of the School of Medicine and Dentistry of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). He set up the virus research laboratory (VRLAB) in 2012 and has since trained 3 PhD students, 12 MPhil students and at least 10 undergraduate students. Since 2012 he has generated resources worth at least $500,000 USD to promote teaching and learning in KNUST.

His key collaborators are the West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP) and the Department of Microbial and Cellular Sciences of the University of Surrey, UK. He serves as a visiting Professor to WACCBIP.

Professor Mutocheluh was born in Yendi in the Northern Region of Ghana. He attended the SakaSaka Primary School and later on spent one year at the Northern School of Business. In 1987 he won a national award to study in Cuba were attended secondary school and university.

He did his national service at the Tamale Regional Hospital and later on worked there as a laboratory technologist between 1995 -1999. He joined KNUST in the year 2000 as a Medical Laboratory Technologist/teaching assistant.

In 2002, he won a scholarship to the University of Nottingham UK, to study a Masters degree programme in Molecular Medical Microbiology. He went to the University of Birmingham, UK to pursue MPhil and PhD in Immunology and infection (2006 -2011).

He is married to Dr Alimatu Salam and they have four beautiful daughters.