Rumana Nasrin
Senior Research Officer International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research (icddr,b), Bangladesh Email: rumana.nasrin@icddrb.org
VALIDATE Role: Network Affiliate
Research Keywords: Tuberculosis, Drug-Resistant TB, Tuberculous Meningitis
Biography: I am currently working as a Senior Research Officer at the Mycobacteriology Laboratory, icddr,b. I completed my MS and BSc in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from University of Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2011 and 2010, respectively. I have expertize on different laboratory methods including culture, drug susceptibility testing, Next Generation Sequencing, PCR, RT-PCR, molecular hybridization techniques, QuantiFERON-TB Gold plus assay, GeneXpert etc. I worked on genetic approaches for the transmission dynamics of drug resistant and drug sensitive Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains, molecular genotyping of Mycobacterium spp from MDR-and XDR-TB patients as well as from extra-pulmonary tuberculosis patients. I am currently working on advanced molecular tools (targeted next generation sequencing) for the rapid and accurate diagnosis of drug resistant tuberculosis. I am also working on evaluation of blood-based bio-markers for the diagnosis and prognosis of TB. I wish to devote my knowledge in improving the TB situation of Bangladesh, understanding molecular mechanism of drug resistance, vaccine development and contribute to the public health research.
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