Professor Dorothy Yeboah-Manu is the first female Director of the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, and she is a Professor of Medical Microbiology. Prof. Yeboah-Manu had her tertiary education at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and finished with First Class, BSc (Hons) in Biochemistry. While working as a Research Assistant at the NMIMR, she studied at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine for her Masters and at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, University of Basel obtaining PhD in Microbiology in 2006.
Professor Yeboah-Manu is a member of the American Society for Microbiology, International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, the WHO Global Network of Laboratories Confirming Buruli ulcer, executive member of the Federation of African Immunological Societies, and Steering committee member for the National Buruli ulcer Control Program, member of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences as well as Chairperson of the Advisory Board of the National TB Control Program. She is a Senior Fellow of the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership and also a board member for African Research Academies for Women, Ghana and a Fellow of the Wellcome Trust. She won the Royal Society Africa Prize 2018.
She is also the Chairperson of the Advisory Board of the National Tuberculosis Control Program. She is a Senior Fellow of the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership and a board member for African Research Academies for Women, Ghana and a Fellow of the Wellcome Trust. She won the Royal Society Africa Prize in 2018 in recognition of her innovative contributions to the understanding of the microbiology, genetics and molecular epidemiology of Mycobacterium ulcerans and Mycobacterium africanum.