Newman Osafo, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Pharmacology at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi, Ghana. He holds a Bachelor of Pharmacy and a PhD in Pharmacology, both earned at KNUST, and has built his scholarly career around the pharmacological investigation of natural products. His research encompasses drug discovery, the study of inflammation, cancer, and neurodegenerative disorders, with a focus on identifying and evaluating novel compounds and extracts from natural sources and elucidating the mechanisms through which they exert their therapeutic effects.

Newman has contributed to more than ninety scholarly works. He serves on the editorial boards of distinguished journals, including Scientific Reports, Scientific Reviews and the International Journal of Inflammation, and has led and contributed to numerous research projects. He currently supervises multiple PhD and MPhil candidates, while also providing extensive mentorship to undergraduate researchers.

At KNUST, Newman teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses in pharmacology, toxicology, and clinical toxicology, and contributes to institutional governance through service on various university committees. His international engagement is equally distinguished: he has served as a visiting scholar and as an external assessor of postgraduate dissertations for universities in Finland and Norway respectively. He has also served as an ad hoc expert assessor of publication novelty for the United Kingdom Government's Metascience Unit and the University of Sussex. Newman is a member of several leading professional bodies, including the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET), International Society of Oncology Pharmacy Practitioners (ISOPP), Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research (GA), and Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana (PSGh).