Bangladeshi PhD student at Purdue University wins P14D Catalyst Award 2022
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Our honorable advisor, Imrul Shahriar has been awarded the prestigious P14D Catalyst Award 2022 by the Purdue Institute for Inflammatory, Immunology and Infectious Disease (PI4D). This award is given in recognition of his exemplary research contributions in his research on targeted therapy for influenza infections and solid tumors and are being recognized.
We congratulate him on this occasion. Success like this will inspire our young aspirants. We wish him health and many more success.
Imrul Shahriar earned his bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the University of Dhaka in 2018. After graduating, he joined Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA as a Ph.D. graduate student in chemistry. He also served as a graduate teaching assistant for the first three semesters of his Ph.D. Imrul Shahriar is currently serving as a graduate research assistant in the lab of Professor Philip S Low, where he is working on the development of bispecific small molecules that can form a bridge between a virus-infected cell and an immune effector cell leading to the eradication of the viral infection. He also works for Eradivir, one of Dr. Low’s startup companies which aim to commercialize the state-of-the-art antiviral immunotherapeutics being developed at the Low research laboratory. Imrul is keenly interested in applying the principles of molecular modeling, virology, and immunology to cure life-threatening viral infections.
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