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Dear Fellow Bangladeshi Americans:
It is with immense pleasure that I share an outstanding achievement by Dr. Syed Ashraf Ahmed. Dr. Ahmed, Principal investigator from the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), discovered a highly efficient inhibitor of botulinum neurotoxin type A, the most potent of seven neurotoxins produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum, in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory. This finding can lead to a very effective drug to stop the devastating effects of the toxin for therapeutic use. Dr. Ahmed earlier initiated the structure-based inhibitor design as part of the institute's bio-defense research program. While the internet version is already available in the April issue of the prestigious 'Journal of Biological Chemistry', the manuscript is indeed in press. The finding was an instant hit and picked up widely by the US main-stream media.
Dr. Ahmed, a local resident of North Potomac, Maryland, is a senior scientist at the Dept. of Molecular Biology, USAMRIID, Fort Detrick , Maryland , USA, previously served as a lecturer of the Department of Biochemistry, University of Dhaka, and is one of the founder members of the Department of Microbiology, University of Dhaka .
Let us extend our warmest congratulations to Dr. Ashraf Ahmed for this remarkable achievement!
Please see the link for more information:
Kindest Regards,
Jafrul Hasan
Senior Microbiologist
US Environmental Protection Agency
Maryland, USA
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