Yaw Opoku-Damoah

PhD student

Xu Group

Australian Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN)

Researcher biography

Yaw Opoku-Damoah is a Ph.D. candidate at the Australian Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN), University of Queensland. He graduated from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana in 2013. As part of his National Service, he worked with the Import and Export Control Department of the Food and Drugs Authority, Ghana before moving on to pursue postgraduate studies in Pharmaceutics at the China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing-China. His research focuses on nano-based drug formulation, delivery, and theranostics. He is keenly interested in the use of nanomedicines for site-specific delivery and controlled release. He has several publications in highly reputable peer review journals such as Biomaterials, Theranostics, Small, ACS Applied Materials and Interface, Biomaterials Science and Molecular Pharmaceutics.

Publications

Journal Articles (14)

Thesis (1)

Journal Articles

Opoku-Damoah, Yaw, Zhang, Run, Ta, Hang T. and Xu, Zhi Ping (2023). Simultaneous light-triggered release of nitric oxide and carbon monoxide from a lipid-coated upconversion nanosystem inhibits colon tumor growth. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 15 (49), 56796-56806. doi: 10.1021/acsami.3c13165

Opoku‐Damoah, Yaw, Zhang, Run, Ta, Hang T. and Xu, Zhi Ping (2022). Therapeutic gas‐releasing nanomedicines with controlled release: advances and perspectives. Exploration, 2 (5) 20210181, 20210181. doi: 10.1002/exp.20210181

Opoku-Damoah, Yaw, Zhang, Run, Ta, Hang T. and Xu, Zhi Ping (2021). Vitamin E-facilitated carbon monoxide pro-drug nanomedicine for efficient light-responsive combination cancer therapy. Biomaterials Science, 9 (18), 6086-6097. doi: 10.1039/d1bm00941a

Alolga, Raphael N., Opoku-Damoah, Yaw, Alagpulinsa, David A., Huang, Feng-Qing, Ma, Gaoxiang, Chavez Leon, Maria A.S.C., Kudzai, Chifodya, Yin, Xiaojian and Ding, Yang (2021). Metabolomic and transcriptomic analyses of the anti-rheumatoid arthritis potential of xylopic acid in a bioinspired lipoprotein nanoformulation. Biomaterials, 268 120482, 1-14. doi: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2020.120482

Boakye-Yiadom, Kofi Oti, Kesse, Samuel, Opoku-Damoah, Yaw, Filli, Mensura Sied, Aquib, Md, Joelle, Mily Maviah Bazezy, Farooq, Muhammad Asim, Mavlyanova, Rukhshona, Raza, Faisal, Bavi, Rohit and Wang, Bo (2019). Carbon dots: Applications in bioimaging and theranostics. International Journal of Pharmaceutics, 564, 308-317. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpharm.2019.04.055

Kesse, Samuel, Boakye-Yiadom, Kofi Oti, Ochete, Belynda Owoya, Opoku-Damoah, Yaw, Akhtar, Fahad, Filli, Mensura Sied, Farooq, Muhammad Asim, Aquib, Md, Mily, Bazezy Joelle Maviah, Murtaza, Ghulam and Wang, Bo (2019). Mesoporous silica nanomaterials: versatile nanocarriers for cancer theranostics and drug and gene delivery. Pharmaceutics, 11 (2), 77. doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics11020077

Teng, Zaijin, Yu, Miao, Ding, Yang, Zhang, Huaqing, Shen, Yan, Jiang, Menglao, Liu, Peixin, Opoku-Damoah, Yaw, Webster, Thomas J. and Zhou, Jianping (2019). Preparation and characterization of nimodipine-loaded nanostructured lipid systems for enhanced solubility and bioavailability. International Journal of Nanomedicine, 14, 119-133. doi: 10.2147/IJN.S186899

Opoku-Damoah, Yaw, Assanhou, Assogba G, Sooro, Mopa A, Baduweh, Cynthia A, Sun, Chunmeng and Ding, Yang (2018). Functional diagnostic and therapeutic nanoconstructs for efficient probing of circulating tumor cells. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 10 (17), 14231-14247. doi: 10.1021/acsami.7b17896

Aouameur, Djamila, Cheng, Hao, Opoku-Damoah, Yaw, Sun, Bo, Dong, Qiuling, Han, Yue, Zhou, Jianping and Ding, Yang (2018). Stimuli-responsive gel-micelles with flexible modulation of drug release for maximized antitumor efficacy. Nano Research, 11 (8), 4245-4264. doi: 10.1007/s12274-018-2012-1

Wang, Ruoning, Han, Yue, Sun, Bo, Zhao, Ziqiang, Opoku-Damoah, Yaw, Cheng, Hao, Zhang, Huaqing, Zhou, Jianping and Ding, Yang (2018). Deep tumor penetrating bioparticulates inspired burst intracellular drug release for precision chemo-phototherapy. Small, 14 (12) 1703110, 1703110. doi: 10.1002/smll.201703110

Ngandeu Neubi, Gella Maelys, Opoku-Damoah, Yaw, Gu, Xiaochen, Han, Yue, Zhou, Jianping and Ding, Yang (2018). Bio-inspired drug delivery systems: an emerging platform for targeted cancer therapy. Biomaterials Science, 6 (5), 958-973. doi: 10.1039/C8BM00175H

Wang, Ruoning, Zhao, Ziqiang, Han, Yue, Hu, Shihao, Opoku-Damoah, Yaw, Zhou, Jianping, Yin, Lifang and Ding, Yang (2017). Natural particulates inspired specific-targeted codelivery of siRNA and paclitaxel for collaborative antitumor therapy. Molecular Pharmaceutics, 14 (9), 2999-3012. doi: 10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.7b00192

Opoku-Damoah, Yaw, Wang, Ruoning, Zhou, Jianping and Ding, Yang (2016). Versatile nanosystem-based cancer theranostics: design inspiration and predetermined routing. Theranostics, 6 (7), 986-1003. doi: 10.7150/thno.14860

Ding, Yang, Wang, Yazhe, Opoku-Damoah, Yaw, Wang, Cheng, Shen, Lingjia, Yin, Lifang and Zhou, Jianping (2015). Dual-functional bio-derived nanoparticulates for apoptotic antitumor therapy. Biomaterials, 72, 90-103. doi: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2015.08.051

Thesis

Opoku-Damoah, Yaw (2022). Development of lipid-coated upconversion nanoparticle as a responsive therapeutic gas release nanoplatform for cancer therapy. PhD Thesis, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/058b1bb