Eric Ofosu Kissi PhD

Eric Ofosu Kissi, PhD has a bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from the University of Cape
Coast Ghana, followed by a few years of working in the pharmaceutical industry at Ernest
Chemist Ltd in Ghana. He was awarded a scholarship from the University of Eastern Finland
to study photonics. His master's thesis was to the characterisation of active pharmaceutical
ingredients and dosage forms using terahertz spectroscopy. He used a novel scotch tape
method to develop quick analytical techniques for these APIs. Using the non-invasive
Attenuated Total Reflection (ATR) technique and a far-infrared spectrometer, he was able to
differentiate between original and counterfeit antimalarial drugs. Counterfeit/falsified
medicines are drugs that are camouflaged as authentic but lack the quality, safety and efficacy
as stipulated by regulatory authorities. Drug counterfeiting is a major worldwide problem and
through developing handheld photonic devices, point of care and individuals can use these
devices to detect the authenticity of the drugs that they are using.
Recognising there is an interesting link between photonics and pharmaceutics, he pursued his
doctorate at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He worked on a multidisciplinary
research project emphasizing on understanding the physical stability of amorphous drug
molecules. During his research, he uncovered the fundamentals and application of, the so-
called, beta relaxation (secondary molecular mobility) in amorphous drugs. He developed a
thermomechanical method for analysing molecular mobility of amorphous drugs using
dynamic mechanical analysis. As part of the project, he was a visiting doctoral researcher at
the University of Cambridge, where he worked with variable temperature terahertz
measurement. He was also a visiting researcher at Roskilde university where he worked with
dielectric spectroscopy.
After being awarded with his PhD, he was appointed as a postdoctoral fellow at the
University of Oslo. Currently, he researches the applicability of 3D printing in the
development of personalised drugs and finding new materials for stabilizing amorphous
drugs. His research interests are amorphous drug delivery systems, solid-state pharmaceutics
and developing the next generation of development of drugs using 3D printing.

https://www.mn.uio.no/farmasi/english/people/aca/ericok/
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kissi_Eric
https://scholar.google.no/citations?user=Ua62PtEAAAAJ&hl=en