It is our absolute pleasure to announce the upcoming presentation of Dr. Senjuti Saha on the heels of the UN General Assembly at the Gates Goalkeepers event in “Changing the Odds with Bill Gates”. At the event in New York, …
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3 days of typhoid in Vietnam
On March 28th ended the 11th International Conference on Typhoid and Other Invasive Salmonelloses. Thanks to the Coalition against Typhoid group for arranging such a wonderful event where enthusiastic researchers from across the globe shared their stories, opinions, and findings …
Highlights of 2018
It’s February of 2019 and we are just publishing our Highlights of 2018 – yes we are a little late to the party, but January 2019 kept us busy! Last month, we got our own IIlumina sequencer, an automated extraction …
Bangladesh leads the world one step closer to understanding causes of deaths in newborns
It is estimated that even today >500,000 deaths in newborns occur every year due to serious infections. However, little is known about what microorganisms cause these infections, which makes it difficult, if not impossible, to save lives through informed-treatment or …
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The right vaccine stories: a panel discussion with Samir Saha
Pneumonia, a preventable and treatable disease, kills one child every 2 min. In the November 2017 issue of the National Geographic Magazine, Cynthia Gorney and William Dianiels painted a vivid picture of why and how vaccines play pivotal roles in …
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Professor Samir K Saha wins the 2017 Carlos J. Finlay UNESCO Prize for Microbiology
Professor Samir K Saha, Head of Microbiology of Dhaka Shishu Hospital and Executive Director of Child Health Research Foundation (CHRF), along with Dr. Shahida Hasnain from Pakistan, has won the 2017 Carlos J. Finlay UNESCO Prize for Microbiology for their …
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