Mohamed Mutocheluh

Faculty Biography

Mohamed Mutocheluh is a Professor in the Department of Clinical Microbiology of the School of Medical Sciences of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). He was head of department from 2020 - 2024. He served as a visiting scholar (2024/25 academicy year) at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City, USA. His mission is to turn research into impact. As a clinical virologist and immunologist, he worked at the intersection of laboratory discovery and public health, from reducing HIV and HBV viral loads in patients to developing promising new drug candidates based on his extensive work on the antiviral type I interferon response signalling pathway. His journey has taken him from Ghana through London to New York City, forging collaborations that cross borders and disciplines. Beyond the science, he is committed to mentoring the next generation of African researchers and building the infrastructure that will make our continent a leader in global health innovation. Click on this link to learn more about his work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNdlvMiZtf4His new promising antiviral candidate drug code named LT500MM was confirmed to inhibit HIV and HBV replication in vitro during his research visit to Weill Corneil Medical College in New York City. His team had previously shown that LT500MM reduced HIV load among some people living with HIV in clinical case studies in Ghana. Since 2012 he has generated resources worth at least $600,000 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 and Dr Robert Schwartz Lab at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City.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.