A/2, Jahurul Islam Avenue
Jahurul Islam City, Aftabnagar
Dhaka-1212, Bangladesh
Dr. Sufia Islam is currently working as a Professor at the Department of Pharmacy, East West University, Bangladesh. She has teaching and research experience in diversified sectors at prestigious national and international institutions. Her major areas of research include experimental animal models of dehydration and sepsis; clinical and laboratory characteristics of sepsis; microcirculatory research; common respiratory pathogens and their antibiotic susceptibility etc. She has published 85 research articles in peer-reviewed national and international journals and conference proceedings.
August 2013 – June 2015: Research Associate, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada.
September 2013 – December 2013: Adjunct faculty, Department of Biology, Saint Mary's University, 923 Robie St., Halifax NS B3H 3C3, Canada.
August 23, 2010 – June 23, 2013: Chairperson, Department of Pharmacy, East West University (EWU).
November 2016 - till date: Professor Department of Pharmacy, EWU.
September 1, 2008 – October 31, 2016: Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacy, EWU.
January 1, 2004 – August 31, 2008: Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacy, EWU.
September 2002 to April 2003: Visiting Fellow, Department of Biological Science, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Homi Bhabha Road, Mumbai 400 005, India.
April 2002 – September 2002: Visiting Fellow in Haffkine Institute, Parel, Mumbai - 400 012.
August 1993 – December 2001: Research Officer, Clinical Sciences Division, ICDDR,B.
May 1992 – August 1993: Worked on a project titled “Role of Vitamin A and Zinc in Reducing Diarrhoea: a Randomized Double-blind Clinic-based Trial with Community Follow-up” at ICDDR,B.
October 1990 – April 1992: Principal Investigator of a project titled “Study of Absorption Promoting Oral Rehydration Solutions in Animal Models” at ICDDR,B.
Syeda R. Tasfia, Hujaifa A. Sakib, Tasmiah Khanam, Nazia Hoque,Mamunur Rahman, Arif Khan, Sufia Islam (2023). "Potential drug-drug interactions and prescription errors in COVID-19 infected patients", Public Health Toxicol 3(2):9. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18332/pht/168246
Sufia Islam, Nazia Hoque, Nishat Nasrin, Mehnaz Hossain, Farhana Rizwan, Kushal Biswas, Muhammad Asaduzzaman, Sabera Rahman, David W. Hoskin, Saki Sultana, and Christian Lehmann (2022). "Iron Overload and Breast Cancer: Iron Chelation as a Potential Therapeutic Approach”, Life 12 (7), 963. https://doi.org/10.3390/
Scholarship awarded by French Government for the doctoral programme.
International Outreach Award from World Congress of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Boston, USA, August 5-9, 2000.
Best Poster Award from Third Asian Food Safety and Security Association Conference on “Food Safety and Food Security”, Bhubaneswar, India, September 15 to 17, 2016.
Best Presenter Award from 5th International Conference on Global Public Health 2019, Nepal, Kathmandu, October 17 to 18, 2019.
Editorial Board member of Bangladesh Pharmaceutical Journal
External member, Departments of Pharmaceutical Technology and Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacology, University of Dhaka for evaluation of question and thesis papers.
Peer Reviewer, Quality Assurance Unit, HEQEP, UGC, Bangladesh
Member, MiDAS (Microcirculation Diagnostics and Applied Studies), an international group of researchers interested in experimental and clinical studies of microcirculation.