Lilian Antwi Boateng has been an early career lecturer and researcher in the haematology and immunohematology Unit of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana since 2012. she supervises and undertakes research specialising in blood transfusion and red blood cell antigens and alloantibodies She handles all transfusion/ blood banking related topics for the undergraduate programmes in Medical Laboratory Technology, Nursing, Emergency nursing and veterinary Medicine. Lilian’s aspiration in the long term is to progress professionally as a national and international transfusion research leader. Lilian holds a PhD in Blood transfusion from the University of Liverpool, a Master of Science with distinction in Biomedical Science from the University of Westminster, United Kingdom and a first-class honours Bachelor of Medical Laboratory Technology from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana. She also undertook a six months residency programme in blood banking at the University of Michigan and the University of Michigan blood bank reference laboratory as a fellow of the University of Michigan African Presidential Scholars Programme (UMAPS). She is currently pursuing a PhD in Tropical Medicine with the International Public Health Department of the Liverpool school of Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom. Her PhD is focused on optimising blood transfusion practices in sickle cell patients in Sub Saharan Africa. Lilian has been the recipient of three scholarships; KNUST-UOW Bespoke scholarship, UMAPS scholarship and Commonwealth PhD scholarship. Since the beginning of her career as a researcher, she has won two seed grants, the DANIDA Building Stronger Universities seed grant and Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) seed grant. All seed grants were channelled into advancing blood transfusion medicine in Ghana. The DANIDA seed grant focused on the prevalence of red blood cell alloimmunisation in multi transfused patients in Ghana and she published her findings in 2014 . The STEM project (2014-17) explored the prevalence and specificities of red cell alloantibodies in sickle cell patients and determined the frequencies of some blood group antigens in the patients. Lilian also partnered with the Department of Pathology, University of Utah to pilot the development of antibody screening cells for antibody testing in Ghana based on the local donor population.