Senjuti Saha is a
Bangladeshi
Bangladeshis ( bn, বাংলাদেশী ) are the citizens of Bangladesh, a South Asian country centered on the transnational historical region of Bengal along the eponymous bay.
Bangladeshi citizenship was formed in 1971, when the ...
scientist
A scientist is a person who conducts Scientific method, scientific research to advance knowledge in an Branches of science, area of the natural sciences.
In classical antiquity, there was no real ancient analog of a modern scientist. Instead, ...
at the Child Health Research Foundation (CHRF), and board member of the Polio Transition Independent Monitoring Board (TIMB) of the World Health Organization (WHO).
She is known for her lead on decoding the genome of SARS-CoV2 in Bangladesh.
Biography and education
Saha was born and raised in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Her father Dr.
Samir Kumar Saha
Samir Kumar Saha (born 28 December 1955) is an eminent Bangladeshi microbiologist and public health expert. He is the professor, senior consultant and head of the department of Diagnostic Division of Microbiology at the Dhaka Shishu Hospital for ...
is a microbiologist and her mother Dr. Setarunnahar Setara is a public health researcher. Senjuti Saha finished high school in Bangladesh.
After finishing A level, she started her Bachelor of Science with biochemistry major at the
University of Toronto
The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution ...
. She has also received her PhD from the same institute.
Work
Senjuti saha started her career as post-doctoral research fellow at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada. She was also appointed as a post-doctoral researcher at the Child Health Research Center (CHRF) in Bangladesh. In 2019, she joined CHRF as scientist. Currently she is also appointed by the WHO as board member of Polio Transition Independent Monitoring Board (TIMB).
In 2020, Senjuti Saha and her team decoded the genome sequence of SARS-CoV2 in Bangladesh.
Prior to that, she had performed an unbiased metagenomic sequence analysis to show a correlation between pediatric meningitis and Chikungunya virus outbreak in Bangladesh.
References
External links
Dr Senjuti Saha, first Bengali microbiologist to be appointed in WHO board
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Bangladeshi scientists
Living people
Bengali scientists
University of Toronto alumni
Bangladeshi women academics
Bangladeshi women scientists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Bangladeshi microbiologists