Person
Azad, Ahmed Abdullah (1945 - )
- Born
- 17 November 1945
East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) - Occupation
- Biochemist and Pathologist
Summary
Ahmed Abdullah Azad is a biochemist with a specialisation in recombinant DNA. He worked at the CSIRO between 1980 and 2000. In 1997 he shared the CSIRO Chairman's medal for his research team's work developing a vaccine for the infectious bursal disease virus.
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Chronology
- c. 1964 - 1967
- Education - Bachelor of Science, Department of Biochemistry, Dacca University
- 1967 - 1968
- Education - Masters of Science, Department of Biochemistry, Dacca University
- 1968 - 1969
- Career position - Graduate research assistant in the Cholera Research Laboratory, Dacca
- c. 1968 - 1973
- Education - Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Canada
- 1969 - 1975
- Career position - Scientific Officer and later Senior Scientific Officer, Atomic Energy Centre Dacca
- 1975 - 1980
- Career position - Research Fellow at the Research School of Biological Sciences, ANU, Canberra
- 1980 - 2000
- Career position - Employed at the CSIRO Division of Protein Chemistry
- 1993
- Award - B. Rispens Memorial Award for Avian Pathology
- 1993 - 1999
- Career position - Seconded to the Biomolecular Research Institute
- 1997
- Award - CSIRO Chairman's Medal for the IBDV research
- 2000 -
- Career position - Director of Research, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa
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Published resources
Resources
- 'Azad, Ahmed Abdullah (19451117-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1491910. Details
Resource Sections
- Ward, C., 'Ahmed Abdullah Azad', in CSIROpedia, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), 2011, https://csiropedia.csiro.au/Azad-Ahmed-Abdullah. Details
Rebecca Rigby
Created: 22 February 2012, Last modified: 3 October 2012