Graduate Students
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Featured Graduate Student Researcher
KWABENA FOBI
Getting Started
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Graduate Program: Chemistry, PhD
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Year: Third
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Hometown: Kumasi, Ghana
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I visited my grandma's village as a young boy. I was fascinated by how she used herbal preparations to treat various ailments.
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To prepare as a medicinal, drug discovery, and drug development chemist, I took courses that would help me realize my dreams while in high school.
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Initially, I wanted to be a professional soccer player, but to no avail.
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My professor's advice, motivation, and biochemical research experiences during undergraduate studies thrust me into graduate programs.
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With my passion for chemistry research, help from faculty, hard work, and dedication, I have enjoyed every minute spent at OSU.
Making an Impact
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We aim to discover drugs that can overcome resistance from bacteria, so I have synthesized and characterized molecules with functionality for perfect binding and interaction at the active site of bacterioferritin implicated in biofilm formation and antibiotic resistance.
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These antibiotics will serve as a new strategy to combat Gram-negative bacteria and biofilms.
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I presented my work at the American Chemical Society and Florida Heterocyclic and Synthesis conferences, and I have three publications in the journal Molecules.
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I recently received the Gary Smith and Soon Han scholarship for an outstanding graduate student from the OSU Department of Chemistry.
Looking Forward
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My career goal is to become part of a community of experts in medicinal chemistry, drug discovery, and development with the hope of helping humanity.
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I envision working in research institutions and pharmaceutical firms to design and develop new antibiotic and anticancer drugs.
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I also see myself in academia; who knows where fate will thrust me.
Professional Development
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