Connecting Alumni · Supporting Students · Building the Future

Together, we carry the legacy forward.

The BGE Alumni & Discipline Association brings together graduates, current students and faculty of the discipline in one lasting community — funding scholarships, hosting reunions, and keeping the network working for the people in it.

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Years of Legacy

Events Hosted

Scholars Supported

Annual reunion, main campus

Welcome to the Association

Connecting generations through knowledge, friendship and service.

Founded by a small group of graduates who wanted to stay useful to each other and to the department, the Association has grown into a network spanning three continents and five decades of graduating classes.

We exist to keep that network working: funding scholarships for current students, running mentorship between working alumni and new graduates, and giving the discipline a permanent, organised voice beyond any single cohort.

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Fahmida R.

Dr. Fahmida RahmanPresident, BGE Alumni Association

Academic roots

BGE Discipline

The discipline this Association grew from — its history, its programs, and how alumni keep contributing back to it.

The Discipline of Bio-Genetic Engineering was established to train researchers and practitioners at the intersection of biology, genetics and applied engineering — a field that has changed considerably since its first graduating class.

Today the department runs undergraduate and postgraduate programs, active research groups, and a faculty body that stays closely connected to its alumni through guest lectures, joint research, and career mentorship.

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1974 — Department foundedFirst cohort of 22 students admitted to the new discipline.

1989 — Postgraduate program launchedMSc and research tracks introduced alongside the undergraduate degree.

2002 — Association formally registeredAlumni formalise the network into a registered association.

2015 — Research collaboration expandedJoint labs established with regional and international partner universities.

2024 — 50th anniversaryHalf a century of graduates celebrated at a national reunion.

Association at a glance

A network built over five decades.

Members

Lifetime Members

Executive Committee Members

Scholarship Recipients

Annual Events

Community Programs

Alumni recognition

Our Distinguished Alumni

Dr. Kamal Hossain

Batch of 1998

Director of Genomics Research, National Institute of Biotechnology

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Nusrat Jahan

Batch of 2005

Founder & CEO, GreenGene Diagnostics

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Prof. Shahriar Alam

Batch of 1991

Vice-Chancellor, Institute of Applied Sciences

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★ Lifetime Members

A permanent home in the community.

Lifetime membership recognises alumni who have made a standing commitment to the Association — funding scholarships, mentoring students, and keeping the network active year after year.

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From our leadership

Messages

Dr. Fahmida RahmanPresident

"Every scholarship we fund and every reunion we host is the same project, repeated: keeping this discipline's people connected to each other, for decades, not just for four years."

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Md. Anisur RahmanGeneral Secretary

"We measure ourselves less by how many members we have and more by how many of them we've actually helped — a scholarship, an introduction, a reference letter."

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Prof. Dr. Lubna KarimHead of Department

"Our alumni are the best advertisement for this discipline — they come back, they teach, they fund the students who'll one day sit where they once sat."

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Prof. Dr. Abul KashemSenior Faculty

"I've taught for thirty years and watched this Association go from a mailing list to a working institution. It still surprises me how far it's come."

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Governance

Executive Committee

Tenure 2025–2027 · elected by the general membership every two years.

Dr. Fahmida Rahman

President

Batch of 1997 · Senior Scientist, BRRI

Md. Tanvir Ahmed

Vice President

Batch of 2001 · R&D Lead, AgroGen Ltd.

Md. Anisur Rahman

General Secretary

Batch of 2004 · University Lecturer

Sultana Begum

Treasurer

Batch of 2003 · Finance Manager

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Find your people

Find Your Alumni Community

Name

Batch

Profession

Location

Rezaul Karim

Batch 2012

Bioinformatics Analyst · Dhaka

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Farzana Yasmin

Batch 2009

Lab Director · Chittagong

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Imran Hossain

Batch 2016

PhD Candidate · Singapore

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Sadia Islam

Batch 2018

Quality Analyst · Sylhet

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Give back

Supporting the Next Generation

Each year, the Association funds tuition, research materials and living stipends for students who would otherwise struggle to complete the program — chosen on need and merit by an independent panel.

01 Need- and merit-based selection by an independent panel
02 Applications open every September, decisions by December
03 Renewable annually, subject to academic standing

Apply for Scholarship Support a Student

500+

Students funded since 2010

BDT 3.2cr

Disbursed cumulatively

92%

Recipient graduation rate

Students studying together with scholarship support

Scholarship award ceremony, 2025

Community initiatives

Activities & Community Initiatives

Blood Donation

Annual Blood Donation Drive

Members and students donate together each spring, run jointly with the department health office.

March 2026Learn More

Career Development

Mock Interview Marathon

Senior alumni run back-to-back mock interviews for final-year students ahead of placement season.

January 2026Learn More

Community relief volunteers working together

Relief Activities

Flood Relief Coordination

Alumni-funded relief supplies distributed to affected members' home districts.

August 2025Learn More

What's on

Upcoming Events

14Nov

Reunion

25th Batch Reunion Weekend

10:00 AM · Main Campus Auditorium

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02Dec

Seminar

Careers in Genomics Panel

4:00 PM · Online + Auditorium

Registration OpenRegister

20Jan

Fundraiser

Scholarship Fund Gala

7:00 PM · Grand Ballroom

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In their words

Alumni Stories

Featured story

Featured Story

From a scholarship recipient to funding the next one

Nusrat Jahan graduated on an Association scholarship in 2005. Twenty years later, her company now endows two scholarships a year — for students in exactly the position she once was.

Nusrat Jahan · Batch 2005 · Founder, GreenGene Diagnostics Read Story

The lab that started as a garage project

Rezaul Karim on turning a final-year thesis into a working diagnostics startup.

Teaching where I once sat as a student

Coming back to the department as faculty, twelve years after graduating.

What the mentorship program actually changed

A final-year student on what six months of alumni mentorship looked like in practice.

Media

Listen & Watch

Featured Episode

Building a Career in Genomics — with Dr. Kamal Hossain

Episode 24 · 42 min · A conversation on the path from postgraduate research to running a national genomics lab.

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Academic Pathways: MSc vs. IndustryEp. 23 · 35 min

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Alumni Experiences AbroadEp. 22 · 48 min

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Industry Experience: First 90 DaysEp. 21 · 31 min

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