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Rabi Musah
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry
Areas of expertise:
Isolation, analysis, biological evaluation and structure elucidation of natural products from medicinally important plants; rational evaluation of folkloric, ethnomedical, and traditional medicinal plants; organic chemistry; experimental physical chemistry; biochemistry; experimental methods of organic structure determination; pharmacognosy
Isolation, analysis, biological evaluation and structure elucidation of natural products from medicinally important plants; rational evaluation of folkloric, ethnomedical, and traditional medicinal plants; organic chemistry; experimental physical chemistry; biochemistry; experimental methods of organic structure determination; pharmacognosy
Campus e-mail:
musah@albany.edu
Campus phone:
(518) 437-3740
Biography:
Rabi Musah, who grew up in Ghana, joined the University's Department of Chemistry in 1998. During the summers, Musah is involved in a 'Young Women in Science' program at the Simon's Rock College of Bard. The program is designed to encourage young women ranging in age from 13 to 17 to explore careers in science. Musah also participates locally in providing 'show and tell' experiments to junior and high school students that are designed to demonstrate the wonder of science.
Rabi Musah, who grew up in Ghana, joined the University's Department of Chemistry in 1998. During the summers, Musah is involved in a 'Young Women in Science' program at the Simon's Rock College of Bard. The program is designed to encourage young women ranging in age from 13 to 17 to explore careers in science. Musah also participates locally in providing 'show and tell' experiments to junior and high school students that are designed to demonstrate the wonder of science.