Peter Kojo Quashie
Afox Fellow 2025
Dr. Peter Kojo Quashie is a virologist and Senior Research Fellow at the West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP), University of Ghana, where he is also Deputy Director (Research). He researches RNA viruses including focusing on viral evolution, immunopathology, and vaccine/therapeutics discovery.
Dr. Quashie trained at McGill University under the late Prof Mark Wainberg, supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Canadian Association for HIV Research. In 2012, he first described HIV integrase mutations (R263K, G118R) which confer resistance to wonder drug dolutegravir. He later pursued postdoctoral research in Structural Virology at the University of Toronto, funded by a Banting Felloship. He returned to Ghana in 2019 to establish his group through the Crick African Network’s African Career Accelerator award.
(WHICH) Study, enrolling 1,000 participants in Ghana and Togo, including one of the largest HIV-2 cohorts in the world. Routine, affordable sequencing from this cohort is vital for tracking drug resistance and viral diversity. As an AfOx Visiting Fellow, he will adapt Oxford’s AMPHEUS sequencing innovations at WACCBIP, building sustainable HIV genomic surveillance and strengthening Oxford–Africa collaborations.