Ongoing Researches: Department of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology

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Biotechnology, Genetic engineering, Microbiology, Molecular biology, Biochemistry, Biosensor development, Protein engineering, Fermentation and Bioinformatics. 

  • Enteric and Diarrheal Diseases
  • Antibiotic Resistant mechanisms of Enteric Bacteria
  • Breast Cancer

Research Grant received

  1. Research grant under special allocations (Interdisciplinary group) from the Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST), Bangladesh in the financial years 2025-2026 and 2024-2025. The title of the project is “Assessing Breast Cancer Risk Associated with Polymorphism of Genetic Markers among Bangladeshi women”.
  2. Research grant under special allocations (Interdisciplinary group) from the Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST), Bangladesh in the financial years 2022-2023, and 2023-2024. The title of the project is “Analysis of the effects of food and water borne carcinogens on the cancer patients of Bangladesh”.
  3. CRT, EWU, Determination of Azithromycin Resistant Mechanisms of Shigella, Salmonella and Vibrio cholerae strains isolated in Bangladesh. Principle Investigator. Value: 10,42,117 BDT. This project is in collaboration with ICDDR,B.
  • Microbiology
  • Biotechnology
  • Plastic Biodegradation
  • Bioinformatics


Received Research Grants: 

1. Principle Investigator. East West University Center for Research and Training (EWUCRT) Research Grant. Jan 2022-present.  Isolation and characterization of plastic waste degrading microorganisms from landfill Soil. 

2. Co-Principle Investigator. Research grant under special allocations (Interdisciplinary group) from the Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST), Bangladesh in the financial year 2022-2023. Project title: Analysis of the effects of food and water borne carcinogens on the cancer patients of Bangladesh.

3. Phi Sigma Research Grant at UTA. Jan 2017 - Aug 2017. Nucleic acid-protein interactions in the integration complex of site specific Long Interspersed Nuclear Elements. 

4. Phi Sigma Research Grant at UTA. Jan 2016 – Aug 2016. Structure and function of non-LTR retrotransposons: Globular domain structure.

  • Metagenomics 
  • Gut Microbiome
  • Microbiome and Mycobiome
  • NGS Data Analysis
  • Metabolomics
  • Machine Learning
  • Molecular Biology
  • Biotechnology
  • Bioinformatics
  • Environmental biology


Received Research Grants: 

Principal Investigator. Research grant from the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST R&D), Govt. of Bangladesh, in the financial year 2025-2026. Project title: Investigating the Oncogenic Susceptibility Conferred by ERCC1-rs11615 Polymorphism: A Genetic Association Study in Breast and Colorectal Cancer among the Bangladeshi Population.

Principal Investigator. Research grant from the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST R&D), Govt. of Bangladesh, in the financial year 2024-2025. Project title: Comparison of extracellular Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria (ePGPR) and intracellular PGPR (iPGPR) from the rhizosphere of Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) on soil fertility and crop productivity.

Molecular Biology, Cancer Genetics

  • Molecular Biology
  • Microbial Biotechnology
  • Oncology
  • Epidemiology 
  • Epigenetics

Molecular Biology

Microbiology and Immunology 

Antibiotic resistance mechanisms of bacteria

Drug Development 

Cancer Biology

Biomedical Sciences

  • Molecular Biology
  • Medical Genetics
  • Environmental Biotechnology

 Microbiology, Cancer Biology, Machine Learning