Department of Genetic
Engineering & Biotechnology
University of Dhaka
Dhaka- 1000
Bangladesh
Overview
Ex-Vice Chancellor Prof. A. K. Azad Chowdhuryalong with Faculty
Members at the GEB Premises
The
Department of Biochemistry, University of Dhaka in an Academic Committee
meeting on the 24th of March, 1998 had proposed the formation of a new
department called Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology
considering the advancement in this area. This proposal was approved by
the Faculty of<<Selection in Document>> Biological Sciences on a meeting
on the 29th March, 1998. The decision to establish this new department
called Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology under the Faculty of
Biological Sciences was taken by the Syndicate on November 20, 1999.
Dr. Anwar Hossain, Professor of the Department of Biochemistry &
Molecular Biology, University of Dhaka was made the Project Director on
December 01, 1999. He developed the course curricula of the new
department, which was approved by the Faculty of Biological Sciences on
a meeting on July 29, 2000.
On
January 24, 2001 Dr. Haseena Khan, Professor of the Department of
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology was made the first chairperson of the
department. The Department of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology
started its Honours degree programme for the Session 2000-2001 with 13
students, among them 6 male and 7 female students.
The
department has at the moment six part-time teaching positions. Class
room and laboratory facilities have been developed on the first floor of
the Science Workshop in what used to be Dean Office for the Science and
Biological Science Faculties. This space had been made available by the
then Dean of Science, Dr. Mesbauddin Ahmed, Professor, Department
of Physics,University of Dhaka.
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