Research Focus
Dr. Abul Azad has been serving as an Adjunct Research Faculty at the institute before joining IN-TRAC as a Scientific Education Program Advisor. He brought a wealth of knowledge, experience and expertise to the IN-TRAC program from teaching in academia and working in scientific research on infectious diseases, especially in the field of TB, for decades. In this new role, Dr. Azad is engaged in providing scientific educational advice to the program personnel and contributing to ongoing program agenda in order to enrich and strengthen the goals of IN-TRAC. He is also committed to serving as liaison between IN-TRAC leaders and participants, and coordinate collaboration between the program cores. Additionally, Dr. Azad supports Research Education by helping in recruitment of summer student interns and in the annual internal grant proposal review for the institute.
Dr. Azad did his Masters (M.Sc.) in Clinical Microbiology from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, and his Ph.D. in Molecular Microbiology from the University of Glasgow (UK) with a prestigious British Commonwealth Scholarship. He had been a Senior Staff Scientist in Dr. Larry Schlesinger’s research group at the institute. He also had teaching experience in Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases at undergraduate/graduate levels in academia, especially in Medical School at the Ohio State University as an Adjunct Professor.