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Salequl Islam

Jahangirnagar University, Johns Hopkins University

Research areas: Medicine · Infectious Diseases · Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria · Antibiotic Use and Resistance · COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies

ORCID iD 0000-0001-6131-4132
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Professor Md. Salequl Islam has been teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students for two decades. Alongside, he is an adjunct faculty under the title of Senior Visiting Fellow at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia. He earned his B.Sc. and M.S. in Microbiology from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. He began his research career at the Immunology Unit of ICDDR, Bangladesh. Then, he transitioned to studying HIV pathogenesis and obtained his PhD in 2011. He was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship sponsored by the International AIDS Society and National Institute on Drug Abuse (IAS-NIDA 2012) to study at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA, between 2013-2015. Subsequently, the Interfaculty Council for Development Cooperation of Katholieke University (KU Leuven), Belgium, awarded him a short visiting research fellowship in 2017. He is a Gold Medal Awardee (Biological Sciences, Junior Group) of the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences (BAS, 2016). He has been working for several years to disseminate American Society for Microbiology (ASM) activities and microbiology research to local students and young researchers. In 2016, ASM selected him as Bangladesh’s head of BioResource Center (BRC). Currently, he has been leading several small and mid-level research projects under One Health Platform at Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh.

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  • One-Health Assessment of Emerging Antimicrobial Resistance Genes (ARGs) in Bangladeshi Livestock, Aquaculture, Soil, and Environment: Tackling the Crisis Together Bangladesh Academy of Sciences and Unites States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
    2021 - 2023

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