Gabriel Boachie-Ansah
Senior Lecturer in Pharmacology
Born in Kumasi, Ghana, 1954; Graduated BPharm (Hons), Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Science & Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, 1980; Split pharmacy pre-registration training at the Dept of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Science & Technology & Okomfo-Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana, 1980-81; Teaching Assistant/Assistant Lecturer in Pharmacology, Dept of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Science & Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, 1980-83. Graduated PhD Pharmacology, Dept of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, 1987; Postdoctoral Research Fellow/Fixed-term Lecturer, Dept of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, 1987-1992. Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Pharmacology, Sunderland Pharmacy School, Faculty of Health Sciences & Wellbeing, University of Sunderland, Sunderland, 1993 to date; Research & Development Facilitator, Sunderland Teaching Primary Care Trust, Sunderland, 2002-2004 (on secondment from the University of Sunderland). Taught pharmacology in Ghana, at the University of Science & Technology, Kumasi, 1980-1983, at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, 1990-1992, then physiology, pharmacology, pathophysiology & therapeutics at the University of Sunderland, 1993 to date. Research interests in cardiovascular pharmacology, with particular focus on endogenous cardioprotective (antiarrhythmic) substances, electrophysiology of myocardial ischaemia & ischaemia-induced modification of antiarrhythmic drug action; antiarrhythmic effects & mechanisms of myocardial ischaemic preconditioning; drug-induced modification of cardiac & vascular potassium channel activity; endogenous mediators of endothelium-dependent vascular smooth muscle relaxation & cellular mechanisms of vasomotor control.
