Professor Christian Agyare

Vice-Chancellor, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

Professor of Pharmaceutical Microbiology, Pharmacist, Researcher, University Administrator

Professor Christian Agyare is a Ghanaian pharmacist, Professor of Pharmaceutical Microbiology and researcher who became the 13th Vice-Chancellor of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in August 2026. A KNUST alumnus, he earned his Bachelor of Pharmacy and Master of Pharmacy degrees from the university before obtaining a Doctor rerum naturalium degree from the University of Münster in Germany. His international research experience includes postdoctoral training at Novartis/Seeding Labs in Boston and research work at the University of California, San Francisco. His scholarship focuses on natural products pharmacology, antimicrobial resistance, ethnopharmacology, wound healing, parasitology, medicinal plants and anticancer drug discovery, and he has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed publications. Before becoming Vice-Chancellor, he served KNUST as Head of the Quality Assurance and Planning Unit and, from 2020 to 2026, as Provost of the College of Health Sciences. His institutional leadership included major quality-assurance reforms, academic programme expansion, research development and infrastructure growth. As Vice-Chancellor, he is leading KNUST with a focus on science and technology, research and innovation, entrepreneurship, digital transformation, sustainable development and international visibility.