Abraham Badu-Tawiah

Office: NW 3111

Office Phone: (614) 292-4276

Email: badu-tawiah.1@osu.edu

Abraham Badu-Tawiah obtained his B.Sc. (2002) and M.Sc. (2005) degrees from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi – Ghana, and M.S. (2007) degree in Chemistry from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana PA. He received Ph.D. (2012) in Chemistry from Purdue University under the supervision of Graham Cooks. From 2012 to 2014, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University under the direction of George Whitesides. He joined The Ohio State University, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry in July 2014 as an Assistant Professor. In June 2020, Dr. Badu-Tawiah was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure and in 2022 he was promoted again to the rank of Full Professor. He is currently the Fox Professor of Chemistry with appointments in the department of internal medicine and the department of microbial infection and immunity. His current research is focused on the development of new mass spectrometry techniques for disease detection, and the studies of novel ion chemistry in charged micro-droplets.

 

Awards and Honors

• Ohio State Early Career Innovator of the Year 2021
• Sloan Fellowship Award 2020
• NIH MIRA for New Investigators Award 2019
• ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry Arthur F. Findeis Award for Achievements by a Young Analytical Scientist 2018
• Eli Lilly Young Investigator Award in Analytical Chemistry 2017
• Research Award, American Society for Mass Spectrometry 2017
• Named Emerging Investigator Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry 2017
• Early Career Award, Department of Energy 2016
• Named Emerging Investigator, Analyst 2016
• Lilly Innovative Fellowship Award, Purdue University 2012
• Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship, Purdue University 2011
• Andrews Fellowship, Purdue University 2007 – 2009
• Academic Achievement Award, Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2006