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Her Excellency, the Ambassador of France, Marie-Annick Bourdin and Alain Mérieux Inaugurate Extended Premises of ideSHi

ideSHi celebrates the official inauguration of its extended facilities at Hosaf High Tower (8 th Floor), 09 Mohakhali Commercial Area, Dhaka 1212 on 6 November, 2018 as carried out jointly by her excellency, the Ambassador of France, Marie-Annick Bourdin and the magnanimous President of Fondation Merieux, Alain Merieux who was accompanied by Dr. Robert Sebbag, a […]

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Free Thalassemia Carrier Screening Camp for month of October at Tiger IT, Banani

For the month of October, ideSHi ran its monthly thalassemia carrier screening camp at Tiger IT Bangladesh on 31 October , 2018. The program was organized jointly by Rotary Club of Dhaka North, and ideSHi. As before the program was focused upon creating awareness among the employees of the company followed by a Blood specimen

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Lower Respiratory Infections (LARI) Etiology research among forcibly displaced Rohingyas in the refugee camps in Ukhia

1       The most recent influx of Rohingya refugees into Bangladesh began following attacks at Myanmar security forces in August 2017. By October 2017, well over half a million Rohingya refugees had crossed border from Myanmar to enter Bangladesh since the attacks. More than half of all these refugees were children and women including a high number of pregnant

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ideSHi at Science for Mankind Research Award 2018

On 9 September, 2018 The EMK  Center, Department of Biomedical Physics & Technology of the University of Dhaka, Dhaka University Science Society, and Relevant Science and Technology Society, Bangladesh joined efforts in introducing the “Science for Mankind Research Award’ aiming to motivate the young generation to pursure career in science. ideSHi participated in the program with

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ideSHi Runs Free Thalassemia Carrier Screening Camp at Energy Point, Tejgaon

As part of ideSHi’s monthly Thalassemia carrier screening program a camp was run on 09 September, 2018 organized in partnership with Rotary Club of Dhaka North at Energy Point, Tejgaon, Dhaka. The program was focused upon creating awareness among the employees of the company followed by a Blood specimen collection drive for free carrier screening.

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ideSHi at The National Biotechnology Fair, 2018

The National Institute of Biotechnology (NIB) organized the National Biotechnology Fair, 2018 at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Novotheater on 7-8 September 2018  in order to create awareness and increase commercialization of Biotechnology in Bangladesh based on education and research. ideSHi participated in the fair and showcased its achievements in the field of biotechnology.

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ideSHi at The Transformers Roadshow: Science, Technology and Innovation Competition

Dr. Md Sazzadul Islam, Adjunct Assistant Scientist at ideSHi presented his idea entitled “Screening for silver resistance genes and identification of plasmid or chromosome-mediated resistance genes of bacterial isolates from burn wounds” at the The Transformers Roadshow: Science, Technology and Innovation Competition which took place on September 8th and 9th, and was organized by the Islamic

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Dissemination of Final Report on “Determination of Prevalence of Thalassemia”

The findings obtained from the study “Determination of Prevalence of Thalassemia” was formally shared with the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) through a dissemination ceremony held on 11 August, 2018 at the IPH Building Conference Room, Mohakhali , Dhaka. The Director General of DGHS, Professor Dr. Abul Kalam Azad graced the program as the

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World Thalassemia Day 2018: ideSHi determines the prevalence of Thalassemia in Bangladesh

For decades fighting communicable diseases have been the principal focus in Bangladesh. So much so that little attention was put in studying and preventing non-communicable diseases. These non-communicable diseases include inherited genetic disorders that affect a significant portion of the population. Among the noncommunicable diseases, thalassemia is the most common congenital single gene disorder in

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TWAS Grant for Studying Colisitin Resistance

Recently,The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) awarded ideSHi a research grant for studying colistin resistance in Bangladesh. The emergence and rapid global outreach of bacterial mobile elements-mediated colistin resistance gene (mcr-1 & mcr-2) in Enterobacterial species isolated from human and various meat samples, has raised serious concern. The indiscriminate use of colistin in poultry, dairy, livestock and

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