Fellow
Faruque Shah Mohammad
Current nationality
Bangladesh
Current country of residence
Bangladesh
Affiliation / Institution
Independent University Bangladesh (IUB)
Biodata
Professor Shah Faruque works in the School of Life Sciences at Independent University Bangladesh (IUB). Previously he was a Professor of Microbiology and Biotechnology in BRAC University. He was also the director of the Genomics Centre at International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), and formerly director of the Centre for Food and Waterborne Diseases in icddr,b. He maintained a research team in Life Sciences for over two decades, and while staying in Bangladesh conducted cutting edge research. He obtained research grants from prestigious institutions including the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), Harvard Medical School, USAID, Swedish International Development Agency, and the Wellcome Trust.
Prof. Faruque obtained BSc (Hons) and MSc degrees in Biochemistry from Dhaka University, and a PhD. in Molecular Biology from the University of Reading in the UK. Prof. Faruque has authored numerous original research papers, reviews, and book chapters, and has edited a number of text books. His works have been published in top ranking international journals, including Nature, PNAS and Lancet. He was awarded the TWAS Prize in Medical Sciences in 2005.
Keywords
Molecular microbiology; diarrhoeal disease; Environment and ecology; epidemiology, cholera and Vibrio cholerae; bacteriophage.
ELECTED
2007
Section
03. Medical & Health Sciences
TWAS Awards
TWAS Prize in Medical Sciences, 2005.
twas-cv_and_publications.pdf
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Country where living and working for the majority of the last 10 years
Bangladesh
Public contact information
EMAIL
shah.faruque@iub.edu.bd
PHONE
+8801713093857
ADDRESS
Aftabuddin Ahmed Road, Bashundhara
List of publications
twas-list_of_publications.pdf
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Last updated on 12/07/2023