Kwaku Twum, PhD
Assistant Professor
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine

PhD, Oakland University
MPhil, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
BS, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology



Ph.D in Biomedical Science with focus in Chemistry. Clinical Chemistry Fellow at UNC Hospitals - Chapel Hill. Assistant Professor at Boston University

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  1. Twum K, Korpi-Steiner N, Wei R, Cotten SW. A Gradual Positive Bias in Chloride Measurements with a Major Automated Chemistry Platform. J Appl Lab Med. 2025 Jul 01; 10(4):969-975. PMID: 40259526
     
  2. Osei FB, Twum K, Manfredi B, Fatohi M, Bessem Ojong Y, Washington V, Beyeh NK. Ionic resorcinarenes as drug solubilization agents in water. RSC Adv. 2024 Oct 23; 14(46):34228-34238. PMID: 39469002; PMCID: PMC11514725; DOI: 10.1039/d4ra06682k;
     
  3. Liu X, Chen X, Zhang L, Twum KJ, Wang X, Xu Y, Zeng X. Crystalline silica particle functionalized by PEG for its collision-enhanced detection at ultramicroelectrode. Anal Chim Acta. 2023 Jun 15; 1260:341178. PMID: 37121651
     
  4. Twum K, Nadimi S, Osei FB, Puttreddy R, Ojong YB, Hayward JJ, Rissanen K, Trant JF, Beyeh NK. The "Nitrogen Effect": Complexation with Macrocycles Potentiates Fused Heterocycles to Form Halogen Bonds in Competitive Solvents. Chem Asian J. 2023 Mar 14; 18(6):e202201308. PMID: 36705487
     
  5. Karle A, Twum K, Sabbagh N, Haddad A, Taimoory SM, Szczesniak MM, Trivedi E, Trant JF, Beyeh NK. Naphthalene-functionalized resorcinarene as selective, fluorescent self-quenching sensor for kynurenic acid. Analyst. 2022 May 17; 147(10):2264-2271. PMID: 35510656
     
  6. Twum K, Bhattacharjee A, Laryea ET, Esposto J, Omolloh G, Mortensen S, Jaradi M, Stock NL, Schileru N, Elias B, Pszenica E, McCormick TM, Martic S, Beyeh NK. Functionalized resorcinarenes effectively disrupt the aggregation of aA66-80 crystallin peptide related to cataracts. RSC Med Chem. 2021 Dec 15; 12(12):2022-2030. PMID: 35028562
     
  7. Twum K, Rissanen K, Beyeh NK. Recent Advances in Halogen Bonded Assemblies with Resorcin[4]arenes. Chem Rec. 2021 Feb; 21(2):386-395. PMID: 33369108
     
  8. Taimoory SM, Twum K, Dashti M, Pan F, Lahtinen M, Rissanen K, Puttreddy R, Trant JF, Beyeh NK. Bringing a Molecular Plus One: Synergistic Binding Creates Guest-Mediated Three-Component Complexes. J Org Chem. 2020 May 01; 85(9):5884-5894. PMID: 32174116
     

This graph shows the total number of publications by year, by first, middle/unknown, or last author.

Bar chart showing 8 publications over 6 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 2020 and 2023

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20232
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20251


2024 Society of Young Laboratorians (SYCL) Travel Award: Association of Diagnostic and Laboratory Medicine (ADLM)
2024 Mass Spectrometry & Advances in the Clinical Laboratory (MSACL): Educational Grant Award
2022 Merck Research Award for Underrepresented Chemists of Color
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