Dr. Christopher Larbie is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), and the Coordinator for Graduate Programmes in Biochemistry and Biotechnology at the Department. He holds a BSc and Ph.D. in Biochemistry focusing on pharmacological and toxicological evaluation of medicinal plants for managing drug-induced liver injury from the KNUST.

He was a Fulbright African Research post-doctoral scientist at the National Centre for Natural Products Research, University of Mississippi, USA, from December 2018 to May 2019 under the Distinguished Professor of Pharmacognosy, Prof. Dr. Ikhlas A. Khan. He is the PI of the HepatoRenal group and Oxidative Stress Laboratory of the Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology. His research interest is in drug-induced liver and kidney infections using in vitro and in vivo techniques to identify medicinal plants and neglected indigenous fruits and spices with a potential of protective and curative effects on animal models of liver and kidney infections.

His research interests further include the development of animal models for diabesity (coexistence of diabetes and obesity), site-specific cancers, and clinical evaluation of characterized medicinal products for human diseases. Experimental techniques employed include phytochemical screening for natural products, haematological and biochemical assessment, histological and immunohistochemical assessment of pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokines. He has trained over thirty (30) postgraduate students (Ph.D., MPhil, MSc) in Biochemistry, Biotechnology and Human Nutrition and over sixty (60) undergraduate students with research funding from the KNUST Research Fund, support from mentors, and other personal sources. Dr. Larbie has contributed to over 50 research papers and presented papers at several national and a few international conferences. He is passionate about mentoring the next generation of medicinal plant biochemists and is proud of his past students who are also university teachers, scientists, and in other Universities at various stages of doctoral and post-doctoral programmes.