About Myself

Yusha Araf is an enthusiastic and innovative individual with extensive experience in scientific research, leadership, team management, event planning, and social networking. He exhibits a high level of dedication, gets fully engaged, and has a clear vision of his goals. He does not get distracted and uses his energy entirely towards manifesting his dreams and fully uses his resources. Mr. Araf is currently working as a Research Assistant at Fujian Medical University. He previously worked as a Research Associate at COVID Research Cell, Wazed Miah Science Research Center, Jahangirnagar University. He graduated from the department of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh. He is the founder of “Community of Biotechnology”, a nonprofit organization in Bangladesh that provides workshops, training, counseling, and research opportunities among the life science students of Bangladesh. He was also the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of “X-Genomics”, an initiative that supported genomics and bioinformatics to the broader research community and aimed to collaborate with genomic research projects and developed a new bioinformatics platform to advance the research and clinical diagnosis using sequencing technologies. He is also the former secretary of ISCB RSG-Bangladesh and the Director-General of SUST Science Arena. He previously worked as a visiting lecturer at Sylhet Cadet College. His areas of expertise are Infectious Diseases, Immunology, Immunoinformatics, Molecular Biology, and Microbial Genetics. He has already published 55 scientific articles, 10 conference proceedings, many awards, and fellowships at various conferences worldwide.

Research Interests

Infectious Diseases

Virology

Immunology

Genetics

Bioinformatics

Synthetic Biology