Dr Joshua Boateng obtained his Bachelor of Pharmacy degree from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in February 1999 (First Class Honours) and then pursued an MSc in pharmaceutical analysis programme at the University of Strathclyde under a DFID Commonwealth Scholarship, graduating in November 2000. He subsequently undertook PhD research in pharmaceutical sciences (drug delivery and formulation) under a Pfizer-sponsored project at the University of Strathclyde, graduating from 2001-05. Subsequently, he took up a postdoctoral position at the Nottingham Trent University as part of a WADA-sponsored consortium on investigating surrogate biomarkers for detecting gene doping in sports, using proteomic approaches (2005-07).

Dr Boateng still maintains active research interests in all the above areas and published extensively as well as presented at several conferences around the above themes. He joined the School of Science at the University of Greenwich in August 2007 and is currently a principal lecturer in formulation science and formulation technology.