Former Doctoral Fellow
Dr. Farjana Akther Noor was a Doctoral Research Fellow at the institute for developing Science & Health initiatives (ideSHi). She was awarded the Science and Technology
Fellowship Trust (STFT) Scholarship in 2018 by the Ministry of Science and
Technology, Government of Bangladesh, and completed her PhD at the University
of Dhaka in 2022. Her doctoral thesis was titled “Prevalence and Mutation
Spectrum of Thalassemia Carriers and Study of Genetic Modifiers Affecting the
Disease Severity of HbE/β-Thalassemia in the Bangladeshi Population.”
Her PhD research focused on determining the prevalence and mutation spectrum of thalassemia carriers in Bangladesh to support early detection and prenatal diagnosis. She
investigated genetic modifiers influencing disease severity in HbE/β-thalassemia and optimized cost-effective, high-resolution melt (HRM) curve analysis–based molecular methods for mutation and SNP detection in the HBB hotspot region. Her work also led to the development of rapid HRM-based SNP detection methods relevant to disease severity and revealed potential therapeutic targets for increasing fetal hemoglobin (HbF) levels in the
Bangladeshi population.
Currently, Dr. Noor is working as an Associate Scientist (Molecular Division) at OMC Healthcare Pvt. Ltd., where she is involved in the development and validation of molecular
assays for in vitro diagnostic kit development. She also serves as an Adjunct Faculty
in the Department of Genetic Engineering and Marine Biotechnology, Bangladesh
Maritime University, and as an Examiner in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
for the National University of Bangladesh.
She has published extensively in high-impact, PubMed- and SCOPUS-indexed journals. Her
long-standing research interests include thalassemia and hemoglobinopathies, molecular genetics, inborn errors of metabolism, and molecular diagnostics of infectious and inherited genetic disorders.
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