Dr. Sharifun Nahar works at Charles River laboratories in Laval, Quebec, Canada. Her role as a Scientist in immunology where she overseas pre-clinical studies for the small and large molecules that are considered as drug candidates. Her studies are mainly related to monitoring the antibodies generated against the drug and the toxicokinetics in the animal
models.
She pursued her doctoral degree from Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Quebec, Canada (2021). Her doctoral work involved the Enzyme kinetics and phage-display. She received JSPS scholarship to study Terahertz Chemical Microscopy for Enzyme kinetics at Okayama University in Japan (2016). She completed her M.Sc. from the same institution just before her PhD (2014). Sharifun developed a colorimetric Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) method that is suitable for point-of-care diagnosis for Herpes Simplex Virus.
Before moving to Canada, she worked at the Virology Laboratory at International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b) where she actively worked in a Hospital based surveillance study to monitor the Influenza types/sub-types that were circulating during the period of Influenza Epidemic in Bangladesh (2009).
Sharifun enrolled at BMB-DU at the session 1991-92 for pursuing undergraduate degree. She completed her M.Sc. from BMB-DU with the collaboration of icddr,b for M.Sc. thesis under the supervision of Dr. Dilara Islam. In her personal life, she is a mother of two daughters. Her hobbies are gardening, cooking and writing. Currently she is writing a book on nutrition in simple Bangla to make it understandable to all. Her dream is to write a book addressing religious (Islam) mis-leading information that goes against women.