The Asian Scientist 100
Senjuti Saha
Institution
Child Health Research Foundation
Country
Bangladesh
Field
Life Sciences
Saha is one of the leading young female scientists in Bangladesh who has been championing the cause of equity in global health research. Saha’s team was the first to sequence the genome of SARS-CoV-2 in Bangladesh, and the first in the world to show that the chikungunya virus could cross the blood-brain barrier and cause meningitis in Bangladeshi children.
(Photo: University of Toronto)
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