The Alper Dogger (AD) scientific index group has published a list of scientists based on citations of papers in 12 categories from 531 universities of 206 countries. Prof. Tofazzal Islam from Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibar Rahman Agricultural University (BSMRAU), a professor in the Molecular Biology and genetics discipline and the founder director of Institute of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (IBGE) has been ranked as first among the Bangladeshi scientists, 360th among the Asian and 2646th among the sceintists in the world in the molecular biology and genetics category. https://www.adscientificindex.com/scientist.php?id=414886&fbclid=IwAR03YGGtLgmefBJge3wWYdHZvs69HEUJWzSTYfcqXgFEFEFr0Rv_xdGJt9U)  In a conversation with GNOBB founder member Dr. Parvez Haris, he expressed his happiness in this regard and mentioned that university teachers should have more focus on research along with their academic works. He also thanked his research team in BSMRAU and his collaborators for this recognition.

Prof Tofazzal Islam works on wheat blast. One of his work was published in BMC journal in 2016 in which he reported lineage of Bangladeshi wheat blast to south american one. Prof Islam was elected as the fellow of Bangladesh Academy of Sciences in 2016 (https://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12915-016-0309-7). In 2011 he got Bangladesh academy of sciences gold medal from the prime minister of Government of the Peoples' Republic of Bangladesh,He also acihieved the commonwealth innovation award in 2019, IDB innovation award in 2018 , UGC awards and many more. He has edited several books on CRISPR-Cas9, bacillus and agrobiotechnology from the springer-nature publisher group. GNOBB wishes the best in his future endeavours.

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