DR. FAHIM KABIR MANJURUL HAQUE

Head Supervisor

Dr. Fahim Kabir Monjurul Haque joined the Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences (Microbiology Program) at Brac University as an Assistant Professor in January 2018. Before joining here he was working as an Assistant Professor at Wakayama Medical University, Japan. He received his PhD in Medical Sciences from Kumamoto University, Japan in 2017 under the HIGO Program scholarship which was funded by MEXT. He completed his Master’s (M.Sc.) and Bachelor’s (B.Sc.) in Microbiology from University of Dhaka. Immediately after obtaining his Master’s degree he joined icddr,b in Virology Laboratory. He worked there as a Senior Research Officer until he left for perusing his PhD in 2013. Throughout his research career he has worked on developmental biology and public health related projects, such as, molecular mechanism of kidney development using animal model (transgenic and conditional knockout mice), congenital kidney disease pathogenesis using patient specific iPS cell derived kidney organoids, urogenital track development, effect of diabetes & low-testosterone in adult penile tissue homeostasis, child pneumonia etiology, clinical drug trial and HIV surveillance.

Professional Activities

Jan 2019 – continue: Assistant Professor, Microbiology Program, Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Brac University, Bangladesh
Jan 2018 – Dec 2018: Assistant Professor, Department of Developmental Genetics, Wakayama Medical University, Japan
Sep 2012 – Aug 2013: Senior Research Officer, Virology Laboratory, Respiratory vaccine research group, Centre for vaccine sciences, International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Mohakhali, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Dec 2010 – Aug 2012: Research Officer, Virology Laboratory, Respiratory vaccine research group, Centre for vaccine sciences, International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Mohakhali, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Feb 2016 Workshop in Philippine about international and regional public health which includes meeting and field visits in WPRO (WHO regional office for Western Pacific), JICA and local NGOs, Government’s rural health care facilities.

Dec, 2015- 3 Days MBA Leadership program at kumamoto University conducted by EQ Partners, Inc. Japan

Nov 2014- Professional Internship Program in Technology Transfer at STC.UNM (Supporting Technology Transfer and Catalyzing Economic Development at the University of New Mexico), USA. This internship was about intellectual property and patent system, Entrepreneurships and Star-up company

Sep 2014- Overseas internships in International Institute of Global Resilience (IIGR), Washington DC, USA). This internship was about Innovation and entrepreneurships, incubator for new ventures, global career (NIH, World bank), emergency crisis management

Sep 2014- Business internship in Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories (SNBL), Japan. SNBL is a global contract research organization with capabilities from early drug development through Phase IV clinical trials especially pre-clinical drug trials
Aug 2014 Governmental internship in Kami-Amakusa, Japan on elderly care and health care system and facilities

• Awards, Honors

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  HIGO program Scholarship (A program for leading graduate schools), Japan 2013

• Membership

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  Japanese Society of Developmental Biologist (JSDB)
  Dhaka University Microbiology Alumni Association (DUMAA)