‘When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it’- a popular quote by Paulo Coelho, always motivated me to aim for the impossible and to believe in the unimaginable. This is my journey in the making. Being born in a small town, I had a big dream of becoming a
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When there is a will, there is a way
It all started over a cup of tea and a discussion about how hard it is to get a decent sanitary napkin in this locality, if you haven’t brought one with you, when it’s your “that time of the month!” The frustration of not having a decent pharmacy nearby got us to think about what
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Charles Shepard 2019 award goes to icddr,b scientist
icddr,b senior scientist Dr K Zaman with his collaborative team from the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have won the Charles C. Shepard Science Award for the second time! Dr Zaman’s research findings on immunogenicity of type 2 monovalent oral and inactivated poliovirus vaccines for type 2 poliovirus outbreak response, published in the
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icddr,b malaria research team expands remit of work
Researchers working on malaria research at icddr,b have recently worked on a number of important studies in malaria-endemic regions including on enzyme-deficiency which affects over 400 million people worldwide. The recent studies, published in BMC Research Notes and in PLoS One, shed light on further insights into Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency (G6PD deficiency). It is an
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icddr,b and partners explore pathways of antibiotic use in Bangladesh and ways to intervene
A new study with icddr,b and collaborators is looking at how antibiotics are used by people in Bangladesh for illness in humans and also for their livestock and animals. In collaboration with Loughborough University, Durham University and the University of Bristol, UK the study, titled Pathways of antibiotic use in Bangladesh (PAUSE) has identified important
