Associate Professor, Physician Assistantship Department, Central University
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Incidence and prevalence of major diseases in Ghana. Current focus is on Diabetes Mellitus, Hypertension, Malaria and various infectious diseases. Metagenomics and New products in Cocoa. Cocoa Quality and health effects of cocoa consumption.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
- Agyrifo, D. S., Wamalwa, M., Otwe, E. P., Galyuon, I., Runo, S., Takrama, J. and Ngeranwa, J. (2019) Metagenomics analysis of cocoa bean fermentation microbiome identifying species diversity and putative functional capabilities.
Heliyon 5: e02170
- Takrama, J. F., Afrifa, A. A., Ofori-Frimpong, K., Jonfia-Essien, W. A., Agyemang, P., Galyuon, I. (2015) Cadmium contamination of cocoa beans and cocoa growing agricultural soils of Ghana: There is no cause for public alarm.
Peak J. Public Health and Management 3: 56-61
- Takrama, J. F., Kumi, W. O., Otoo, G., Addo, K and Camu, N (2015) Optimization of cocoa pulp juice fermentation with yeast starter cultures of cocoa heap fermentations. J. Agric Sci Food Technology 1:22-33
- Takrama, J. F., Kun, J., Meinhardt, L., Mischke, S., Opoku, S. Y., Francis K. Padi, F. K., Zhang, D. (2014) Verificatiion of genetic identity of introduced cacao germplasm in Ghana using single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers.
African J. Biotechnology 13(21): 2127-2136
- Takrama J. F., Dadzie, A. M., Opoku, S. Y., Padi, F. K., Adomako, B., Adu-Ampomah, Y., Livingston III, D. S., Motamayor, J. S., Schnell, R. J., Kuhn, D. N. (2012) Applying SNP marker technology in the cacao breeding program at the Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana. African Crop Science J. 20:67-75
- Teye, E, Huang, X., Sam-Amoah, L. K., Takrama, J. F., Boison, D., Botchway, F., and Kumi, F (2015) Estimating cocoa bean parameters by FT-NIRS and chemometrics analysis. Food Chem. 176:403-410