Senjuti Saha

Dr Senjuti Saha is a molecular microbiologist based in Bangladesh. After completing her PhD in Molecular Genetics at the University of Toronto, she received post-doctoral training at the Hospital for Sick Children and Stanford University. Dr Saha moved to Bangladesh in 2016 to work at the frontlines of public health. She is currently a Director and Scientist at the Child Health Research Foundation, leading fundamental studies on pediatric preventable infectious diseases. Her team focuses on pediatric preventable infectious diseases, with the goals of using modern molecular technologies including on-site metagenomics to identify etiologies that evade standard laboratory testing in resource-constrained settings. Dr Saha has made significant contributions to the genomic epidemiology and antimicrobial resistance patterns in typhoid, paratyphoid and Klebsiella infections, revealed chikungunya virus as a cause of meningitis in children, and sequenced the first SARS-CoV-2 genome in Bangladesh.

Dr Saha advocates for equal access to science education through her program "Building Scientists for Bangladesh", with the goal of democratizing the access and benefits of science for everyone. She hopes to inspire others to join her movement with the motto, ‘science by and for the many, not the few’.