Dhaka 21st December, ’14. With a heavy heart, profound shock  and grief GNOBB announces the passing away of Professor Dr. Maqsudul Alam at an early age 60. In his death Bangladesh lost a great scientist and a genuine friend. Although he was a USA  Prof. Dr. Maqsudul Alam immigrant, at heart he was a true Bangladeshi. This patriotic feeling inspired him to

Dhaka 20th December, ’14. One of the dynamic and Founder GNOBB member, Dr. Hemayet Ullah, Associate Professor at Howard University, Washington DC has recently launched a start-up company and through the company and patent, they are going ahead with the compounds recommended for use as a fertilizer additive. As part of the requirement of the NSF grant, they have created two ver

11th December, 2014. With a good deal of pleasure, GNOBB announces that one of its dynamic members, Professor Dr. Tofazzal Islam is the Team Leader of a project titled “Renewable energy from animal wastes: benefits from agriculture and society”. The project is funded by the International Strategic Partnerships in Research and Education (INSPIRE) Round – 4 of the Br

December 11, ’14. The Sixth International Botanical Conference was held 6 through 7th December, 2014. The Inaugural session was held at 10.00 a.m. on 6th December, at Nawab Nawab Ali Senate Hall, Dhaka University. The Chief guest was Mr. Tofael Ahmed, MP, the Honorable Minister for Commerce. The special guests were: Ms. Mehr Afroz Chumki, the State Minister for Women and Child

Dear members, Heartiest Greetings from GNOBB desk! The deadline for nomination of potential candidates for “GNOBB award” has been extended till 15th December, 2014. GNOBB strongly encourages its members to send their nominations within the deadline. Please nominate and encourage your friends and colleagues to nominate candidates who have made significant achievements in

27th November, ’14.   The Nepal Biotechnology Association organized a two-day National Conference on Biotechnology along with its Annual General Meeting on November 22-23, 2014 in Kathmandu. The theme of the conference was Plant Biotechnology for Economic Development. The main objective of the conference is to apply biotechnology for rapid development of agricultural crop

27th November, ’14. GNOBB always feel exceedingly happy when any of its members publishes his/her research results in a peer-reviewed paper journal with a good impact factor. We are pleased to report that one of its members, Ahmad H. Kabir along with three of his associates at Rajshahi University has published a paper entitled, ‘Mechanisms associated with differenti

Dhaka 27tth November, ’14.  On behalf of GNOBB and on my own behalf  we congratulate Dr. Firdausi Qadri heartily and felicitate her warmly  on her being appointed as one of the members in the Panel of the United Nations  to assess the scope and functions of its proposed new ‘Technology Bank’.  According to a statement by UN Secretary G

Dhaka 25, ’14. In a short article by Helen Thomson, published on the 19 November issue of Nature the authors have shown that in the absence of good bacteria in the gut, some taxa of virus take their place in order to fight the disease leading to the recovery of the patient from said illness. The news is exciting because so long the notion was that viruses cause dise

November 16, ’14. Professor Ahmed A. Azad a popular name in the GNOBB Circle has requested me to post the following. This is about the Feasibility of Establishing a Research-led Drug Discovery and Development Network in Bangladesh based on the indigenous Biota. If you want to read the entire proposal please click here. Dear Friends and Colleagues, I am writing to seek