The Global Network of Bangladeshi Biotechnologists (GNOBB) wants to congratulate its lifetime member, Prof Akhter Hossain, for his outstanding achievement of the Florey Fellowship Award 2024. The Fellowship offers him generous research support values of ~ AUD 800,000, allowing him to continue ground-breaking research for the next three years. This Fellowship is a testament to his outstanding achievements in the field of peptide-based drug design. The press release from Florey states, "Akhter has an impressive research portfolio in peptide chemistry straddling fundamental research with numerous commercial opportunities and existing industry engagements. Akhter is an exceptional scientist and a role model of Florey values".

Prof Hossain completed his BSc and MSc from the Department of Biochemistry, University of Dhaka, and Ph.D. (2001) from Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan) and undertook postdoctoral studies at Joseph Fourier University (France). He has been the Head of the Insulin Peptides Laboratory at the Florey, University of Melbourne since 2012. His research group is interested in developing novel chemical methods for synthesis of insulin and insulin-like peptides and designing peptidomimetics as tools and drug leads for diabetes, obesity, fibrosis, and colon motility disorders. He has published 174 articles to date, and his research is frequently published as lead/senior author in the highest-ranked chemistry journals such as Chemical Reviews, Journal of American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Chemical Science, and Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. His research has attracted AUD ~$8 million as principal investigator from internationally competitive grant agencies such as ARC and NHMRC. Seven of his discoveries have been patented. He is the current co-chair of the Solid Phase Synthesis Symposium.

GNOBB wishes continued success in all his future endeavors!