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Dr. Shah M. Faruque
Dr. Shah M. Faruque

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Dr. Shah M. Faruque
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Senior Scientist, and Head
Molecular Genetics Unit
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research (ICDDR)
Mohakhali, Dhaka-1212
Bangladesh
8860523-32
House # 8/D
Block-D
Bashundhara Residential Area, Dhaka
Bangladesh
01713 093857
01713 093857

Biography

He obtained his B.Sc. honours (1978) and M.Sc. (1979) degrees in Biochemistry from Dhaka University, and his Ph.D. degree in Molecular Biology from the University of Reading, England, 1988. He was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship for higher studies in the UK.
Dr. Faruque was awarded the TWAS prize-2005 in Medical Sciences by the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World. He is also the first Bangladeshi scientist to be awarded a TWAS prize.
Dr. Faruque began his research career at the University of Reading, and conducted basic research in hormonal regulation of gene expression. Later, he worked in the Department of Biochemistry, Dhaka University as an Assistant Professor, and then moved to the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) to head the Molecular Genetics Laboratory. He obtained further training at the Centres for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta, USA, and the Osaka Prefecture University, Japan. Dr. Faruque has ongoing research projects with scientists at the Harvard Medical School, and the Johns Hopkins University in the USA.

Dr. Faruque’s research focuses on addressing health problems in developing countries. His areas of interest include microbial genetics, molecular epidemiology, ecology, and evolution of bacterial pathogens, particularly those associated with diarrhoeal diseases. Although he has contributed significantly in understanding the epidemiology of Shigella and diarrheagenic Escherichia coli infections, his major contribution is in the epidemiology and genetics of Vibrio cholerae, the causative agent of cholera. Dr. Faruque has contributed extensively to the recent understanding of the epidemiology, transmission and ecology of V. cholerae, and proposed models to explain the dynamics of cholera epidemics in the Ganges Delta region of Bangladesh and India.
Of over one hundred peer reviewed original research papers, review articles or book chapters, which Dr. Faruque has published, as many as 13 papers have been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA (PNAS), one of the top ranking journals in science. He has also published extensively in other high impact international journals. The book chapters have been published by renown publishers including the Cambridge University Press (UK), the ASM Press (USA), and the Kyoto University Press, (Japan). His research findings have been highlighted, and quoted in various scientific reviews, and in the news media.

Dr. Faruque has recently edited the latest book on Vibrio cholerae entitled "Vibrio cholerae: Genomics and Molecular Biology, published by the Horizon Scientific Press Ltd., in the U.K.
Selected recent meetings and Lectures:

Faruque SM. Invited Lecture: Transmissibility and Epidemic Cycle of Cholera. 13th Meeting of the International Society of Infectious Diseases, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. June 19-22, 2008.

Faruque SM. Invited Lecture: Phages and Cholera. 161st Meeting of the Society of General Microbiology, Edinburgh 3-6 September, 2007.

Faruque SM, TWAS prize Lecture: “Cholera” TWAS 10th General Conference, Angra dos Reis, Reo de Janeiro, Brazil 1-6 September 2006.

Faruque SM, Progress towards a unified model for cholera dynamics. 11th Asian Conference on Diarrhoeal Disease (ASCODD), Bangkok, 8-10 March 2006.

Faruque SM, Key note speech: Cholera dynamics. Vibrio-2005 Conference, Ghent, Belgium 7-8 November, 2005.
Fellow, Bangladesh Academy of Sciences

Fellow, TWAS Academy of Sciences for the Developing World

Member, International Society for Infectious Diseases

Academy

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Elected Fellow
2005