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Microbiologist Senjuti Saha and her team are empowering the next generation of scientists and community leaders in Bangladesh.

CHRF is a non-profit organisation in Bangladesh dedicated to preventing infections and saving lives. Building Scientists for Bangladesh emerged in early 2022 as a means to nurture a generation of young individuals aspiring to become scientists and community leaders.

Microbiologist Senjuti Saha is the Director of the non-profit Child Health Research Foundation (CHRF), in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and a strong advocate for equity in global health research. When she received a grant in 2018 to set up a sequencing facility at CHRF and got the non-governmental organisations first sequencing machine, she says, “I wanted to show the world that you could be anywhere in the world and be able to sequence. You don’t have to ship samples out to the US or UK. You can seque...