Dr. (Mrs.) Cynthia Amaning Danquah is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Pharmacology, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana. She pursued an interdisciplinary PhD in Drug Discovery to tackle antimicrobial resistance at the School of Pharmacy, University College London, UK and Birkbeck, University of London, UK. Her MPhil (Pharmacology) and Bachelor of Pharmacy (Hons) were obtained from KNUST. Natural product drug discovery, tuberculosis, antimicrobial resistance and natural product pharmacology and toxicology are her research areas of interest. She is a Pharmacist with passion for infectious diseases of public health concern and a member of a range of professional bodies including the British Pharmacological Society (BPS), the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (BSAC), International Society for Pharmacovigilance (ISOP), the West African Network of Natural Products Research Scientists (WANPRESS), International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP), Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana (PSGH), an affiliate of the African Academy of Science (AAS) and the Country ambassador for the American Society for Microbiology (ASM).
	Michael Tetteh is a research assistant at the Department of Pharmacology, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). He graduated with a BSc. (Hon) in Herbal Medicine at KNUST in 2016. He worked as a teaching and research assistant in the Department of Pharmacology KNUST, a medical intern at Tetteh Quarshie Memorial Hospital and a research intern at the Center for Plant Medicine Research all in Ghana. Natural product drug discovery against resistant infectious disease is his research area of interest. He is a member of the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, the American Society for Microbiology and the Ghana Association of Medical Herbalist.
	Dr. Isaac Kingsley Amponsah is a Senior lecturer in Pharmacognosy at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). He holds a Doctor of philosophy in Pharmacognosy (completed 2012) and a Bachelor of Pharmacy degree (completed 2005), all from KNUST. He has a certificate in Good manufacturing practices (GMP) and good agricultural collection practices (GCAP) from Hanoi University of Pharmacy in Vietnam and i+solutions, Amsterdam, Netherlands. His research focuses on phytochemical investigation of biologically active plant medicines and the quality control of herbal products using various analytical methods. His current research includes plant constituents as biofilm inhibitors for the mitigation of microbial resistance, plant constituents and formulations against Mycobacterium ulcerans (implicated in Buruli ulcer) and standardisation of herbal products. Dr Isaac Kingsley Amponsah is a member of the society for medicinal plants and natural product research. He serves as an ECOWAS expert committee member on traditional medicine. He is also a member of the governing board of the traditional medicine practice council of Ghana and Chairman of its education committee.
	Professor Kwame Ohene Buabeng is a Clinical Pharmacologist and Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana. He is the Vice President of the Ghana College of Pharmacists (GCPharm) and Chair of the Division of Pharmaceutical Care, GCPharm. He is also Deputy Chair of the multi-sectoral, multi-stakeholder coordinating platform on Antimicrobial Resistance in Ghana, and a Member of the National Medicines Selection Committee for the Development of Standard Treatment Guidelines (STG) and Essential Medicines List (EML). Prof Ohene Buabeng has B. Pharm degree, MSc in Clinical Pharmacology and PhD in Pharmacy (Social Pharmacy-Health Systems and Drug Utilization Research) as well as Certificate in Public Health Science, Research and Ethics. His research interest is in prevention, pharmacotherapy and control of Infectious Diseases and Cardio-metabolic disorders.
	Professor Abraham Yeboah Mensah obtained his PhD at King’s College, London, United Kingdom in1999 and his Bachelor of Pharmacy (Hons) in 1990 from KNUST. He is a Pharmacist and a lecturer in Pharmacognosy. His research interest is in natural products with biological activities. Prof Yeboah Mensah is a Commonwealth Scholar and Fellow and a recipient of the prestigious Welcome Trust (United Kingdom) Research Development Award in Tropical Medicine (2002–2004). He is also a scholar of the University of Michigan African Presidential Scholar Program. Other awards received by Prof Abraham Yeboah Mensah include the German Academic Exchange Service Award (DAAD). He collaborates with a number of scientists from several countries including Germany, United States and the United Kingdom. He is a Fellow of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana (PSGH) and a Fellow of the Ghana College of Pharmacist.
	Professor Simon Gibbons is a Professor of Natural Product Chemistry at the University of East Anglia School of Pharmacy, UK. He is founding Editor-in-Chief of Phytochemistry Letters and Co-editor of Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products (“Zechmeister”). Simon was past President of the Phytochemical Society of Europe and has served on the UK Government’s Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD). He currently is a member of the Home Office’s Cannabis Based Medicinal Products Committee. He has special interests in medicinal natural products, phytochemistry and antimicrobial natural products from plants and microbes. His group specialises in the isolation and structure elucidation of natural products that are active against drug-resistant bacteria. He also is interested in compounds that modify bacterial resistance. These may be plasmid transfer inhibitors or efflux inhibitors
	Professor Sanjib Bhakta is a Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Biochemistry, Department of Biological Sciences, Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology (ISMB), Birkbeck, University of London, UK. He is the Programme Director of MRes Global Infectious Diseases, Department of Biological Sciences, Assistant Dean (Strategic) Internationalisation and Partnership, School of Science, Birkbeck. Professor Bhakta’s research group at the ISMB-Mycobacteria Research Laboratory works on global infectious diseases such as tuberculosis (TB) and international health challenges with antibiotic resistance. His main research interests are focused around characterising the physiology of the different metabolic states of Mycobacterium spp., tackling antimicrobial resistance through validating novel therapeutic targets, from identifying hits to optimising novel leads and repurposing existing immunomodulatory drugs to cure TB.