Speakers - 2024

Biography

Dr. Farhat Afrin received her Ph.D. from Jadavpur University in India and pursued postdoctoral research at NIAID, NIH, USA, and the University of York, UK. She has also served the Department of Biotechnology, Hamdard University, New Delhi and the Department of Medical Laboratory Technology, Taibah University, Saudi Arabia.

Dr. Afrin is a recipient of several honors, including the American Association of Immunologists Young Faculty Travel Grant, the Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship, the International Association of Advanced Materials Scientist Award, the Department of Biotechnology Overseas Associateship, the Indian Council of Medical Research International fellowship, besides several research grants-in-aid. Her research interests are immunotherapeutics, epigenetics, herbal and nano-medicines for leishmaniasis, cancer, and diabetes. She has published over 62 papers in International journals with a cumulative impact factor of 229, an H index of 33, and a citation record of 2588 as per the Scopus database. And is an Associate Editor of several Journals and books.