I completed my Bachelor of Pharmacy degree from North South University, BD followed by a MSc in Pharmacology from University of Oxford, UK. I then served as a Lecturer at the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences for three years at North South University, BD. I completed my PhD from the Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience and the Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, funded by IsDB-Cambridge International Trust scholarship. My thesis focused on trying to understand the structural and functional relationship of the human voltage-gated sodium ion channel subtypes Nav1.5 and Nav1.7. During my PhD I gained experience in electrophysiology (whole-cell patch clamping), site-directed mutagenesis, cloning, recombinant protein expression and purification, protein-protein interaction studies (ITC, BLI), and antibody discovery using single chain fragment variable (scFv) Phage Display.
