Shah M. Faruque

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Shah Mohammad Faruque
Born1956 (age 67–68)
Jessore District, Bangladesh
Alma materUniversity of Dhaka
University of Reading

Shah Mohammad Faruque (

International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
(ICDDR,B), and formerly director of the Centre for Food and Water Borne Diseases in ICDDR,B. His areas of research interest include microbial genomics, bacteriophages, environmental microbiology, ecology, and evolution of bacterial pathogens, particularly those associated with waterborne and foodborne diseases. Faruque is primarily known for his work in genomics, epidemiology and ecology of the cholera pathogen, and its bacteriophages.[1]

Faruque is a Fellow of

TWAS, the World Academy of Sciences, as well as a Fellow of the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences
.

Early life and education

Shah Mohammad Faruque was born in Jessore District,

Dhaka University in 1978 and 1979 respectively. He obtained his PhD in 1988 from the University of Reading, in the UK. In Reading, he worked on hormonal regulation of gene expression. He was a Commonwealth Scholar
in the UK.

Career

Faruque joined the faculty of the Department of Biochemistry at the

TWAS. Faruque collaborates with scientists from different countries and Institutes in India, Japan, Thailand, Sweden, UK, and the US. He also established the Genomics Centre in ICDDR,B with financial support by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA). Faruque maintained an active research team in icddr,b for over two decades, and then moved to BRAC University to strengthen life science research in one of the nation's premier private universities. Later he joined Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB
), and worked as the Dean of the School of Environment and Life Sciences in IUB.

Addressing the health problems of developing countries, Faruque has contributed significantly to the understanding of natural mechanisms associated with the emergence of

lytic bacteriophages
in the ecology of Vibrio cholerae, that supports a self-limiting nature of seasonal cholera epidemics. His team has also conducted cutting-edge research in CRISPR-Cas systems carried by bacterial viruses such as the JSF series of bacteriophages, isolated and characterized by them. It is vital to generate more knowledge on the underlying diversity and functions of this system to fully realize the potential of technologies like CRISPR gene editing. Currently Faruque and his team have been studying the role of quorum sensing and bacterial communication through molecular signals in the environmental biology and epidemiology of the cholera pathogen.

Awards

Faruque was awarded the

TWAS Prize in Medical Sciences in 2005.[2]

Personal life

Faruque is married to Hasna Hena. They have two children - Elora Faruque and Shah Nayeem Faruque.[citation needed]

Publications

Faruque has authored more than 150 original research papers, reviews, and book chapters. His papers have been published in top ranking international scientific journals, including

PNAS, Lancet and ASM Journals. He has also edited a number of books which include Vibrio cholerae: Genomics and Molecular Biology (2008),[4] and Foodborne and Waterborne Bacterial Pathogens (2012).[5]

References

  1. ISBN 978-1-4039-8764-8
    .
  2. ^ "Dr Shah M Faruque rewarded" (PDF). Glimpse. 28 (2–3). ICDDR,B: 7. June–September 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 March 2012.
  3. PMID 20944629
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  4. ^ "Dr. Shah M. Faruque". Bangladesh Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 23 August 2018.
  5. ^ "Foodborne and Waterborne Bacterial Pathogens: Epidemiology, Evolution and Molecular Biology". Caister Academic Press. Retrieved 23 August 2018.

External links

  1. Shah M. Faruque on icddrb.org
  2. interview on cholera in Bengali on voanews.com
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