Kwesi Akonu Adom Mensah Forson

Kwesi Akonu Adom Mensah Forson is a PhD candidate in Biology at the University of Virginia, where he studies how malaria parasites evolve to survive drug pressure. His research focuses on Plasmodium falciparum, the deadliest malaria species, using genetic and single-cell tools to uncover how the parasite adapts through changes in gene copy number and gene expression.