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Kazi Farhana Afroz, Ph.D.

Kazi Farhana Afroz, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Pharmacology andChemical Biology at Emory University. Farhana earned her bachelor’s degree in Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering from Khulna University, Bangladesh in 2010. She worked on the prospects and problems of biofuel production in Bangladesh for her undergrad thesis. In 2018, she started her graduate study in the Department of Biological Sciences at Texas Tech University. She graduated with a Ph.D. in Neuroscience concentration in the Spring, of 2022 and her research project was on the impact of maternal salt consumption on the development of offspring gut microbiome and Autism-like behavior. Farhana presented her Ph.D. research findings in posters at several regional and national conferences and got two first-author papers published. She received several fellowships and awards from Texas Tech University namely the Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Best Dissertation Award, Graduate Research Grant, and 3MT thesis (2nd place winner). Currently, Farhana is working on identifying the role of amyloidosis-associated proteins (AAPs) on Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) pathology. Besides being a researcher, Farhana is a wife and mother of two beautiful daughters. She loves to play with the kids, cook, travel, and watch movies in her spare time.

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