Sep 3 2021
For her “passion and life-long devotion to the scientific profession,” Dr. Firdausi Qadri, 70, is honored with this year’s Ramon Magsaysay Award, dubbed as Asia’s counterpart of the Nobel Prize.
The Bangladeshi scientist is cited for her “vision of building the human and physical infrastructure that will benefit the coming generation of Bangladeshi scientists,” particularly women.
Also recognized is her “untiring contributions to vaccine development, advanced biotechnological therapeutics and critical research that has been saving millions of precious lives.”
Qadri was born to a middle-class family on March 31, 1951, that encouraged women to pursue an education and a career.
Early in her life, she decided to specialize in medical research, earning a degree in biochemistry, and later obtaining a doctorate from Liverpool University in the United Kingdom.
After her education abroad, Qadri came back to Bangladesh and taught in a local university.
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