Maxwell Afari Gyamfi, PhD, joined the College of Pharmacy in September as assistant professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences.
Dr. Gyamfi is an expert in drug metabolism, nuclear receptors, fatty liver disease, drug-induced hepatotoxicity, type 2 diabetes, and animal models of obesity and alcoholic liver disease. He did doctoral and postdoctoral work in Japan, receiving his PhD in biochemistry from the University of the Ryukyus in Okinawa and completing a one-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Laboratory of Drug Metabolism, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, at Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan.
Dr. Gyamfi then moved to the United States to work as a postdoctoral fellow and then research assistant professor at the University of Kansas Medical Center (KUMC) in Kansas City, Kansas. In 2009, he moved to the North Carolina Central University in Durham, North Carolina, as a research scientist. He joined the UTHSC College of Pharmacy faculty September 1 as an assistant professor.
