Building R&D Capacity in S&T-lagging Countries for Discovery and Development of New Drugs from Regional Biota 1st DRDC Conference, BUHS, Dhaka, October 3-6, 2015 (DRAFT) Report on Scientific Program and Recommendations Prepared by Ahmed A Azad (aaazad1945@gmail.com) Introduction: The first international conference on “Drug Discovery and Develop

May the year 2016 fulfill all your hopes, aspirations and dreams and may prove to be one of the most fruitful years of your life. GNOBB Coordinator

Dhaka the 29th December, 2015. In continuation of the news on the publication of the December issue of the Journal of PTC&B, I am pleased to inform the members and well wishers that the following ten articles have been published in the December issue of the Journal. Shruti Bardar, S.L. Kothari1and Sumita Kachhwaha – Optimization of Factors Influencing Agrobacterium medi

December 5, 2015. The Annual Bangladesh Botanical Society was held 4-5 December at Jahangirnagar University. The conference was inaugurated on the 4th December at 10.00 a.m by Begum Matia Chowdhury, the Honorable Agriculture Minister MP. Ms Meher Afroze Chumki MP, Honorable State Minister, the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs, Professor Dr. Farzana Islam, the Vice Chancellor,

November 17, 2015. The second Annual conference of the Bangladesh Association of Plant Tissue Culture & Biotechnology, was held on 13 -14, November, 2015 at the Hotel Sea Place, Cox’s Bazar. Professor M. M. Haque, the President of said Association chaired the Inauguration Ceremony. Professor A A M S W Siddique the Honor’ble Vice Chancellor of the University of Dhaka

The 42th issue of the online newsletter “BioLife” by ACI Agribusinesses is now available. “BioLife” highlights the new developments and technologies in the agriculture sector along with the various activities of ACI Agribusinesses.We hope, you will find it informative and enjoy reading it.   Download PDF   Tagged as: BioLif

Dhaka 23rd October, 2015. Hats off to Dr. Shamsul Alam, at the Laboratory of Cell Immune Biology, Bethedsa, Maryland for his outstanding contribution which will pave the way to the cure of pancreatic cancer. The entire community of GNOBB members join hands in paying a glowing tribute to Dr. Alam. Although Dr. Alam’s finding is in mice, it is definitely a step forward toward di

October 7, 2015. The first international conference on Drug Discovery and Development in Developing countries (DRDC) held in Dhaka from 3-6 October, 2015 concluded extremely successfully. The conference was organized by the Bangladesh University of Health Sciences (NUHS) and sponsored by The International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology and Incepta Pharmaceuticals L

The 41st issue of the online newsletter “BioLife” by ACI Agribusinesses is now available. “BioLife” highlights the new developments and technologies in the agriculture sector along with the various activities of ACI Agribusinesses.   Download PDF

October 5, 2015. In a paper entitled, “Thymoquinone (TQ)  inhibits cancer metastasis by downregulating TWIST1 expression to reduce epithelial to mesenchymal transition,” the principal author Md. Asaduzzaman Khan1 and seven of his associates, namely, Mousumi Tania1, Chunli Wei1, Zhiqiang Mei, Shelly F, Jingliang Cheng, Jianming Xu, Junjiang Fu at the Key Laboratory o