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Research Assistant
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Afsana Khanam is a 4th year Ph.D. student majoring in Biochemical and Molecular Nutrition at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. Her research mainly focuses on investigating the transport and fate of bovine milk exosomes and RNA cargos in primary macrophages. Afsana has a great interest in exploring the therapeutic potentials of exosomes derived from stem cells in the treatment of metabolic diseases in her future scientific career.
Afsana received her B.Sc. and M.S. degrees in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. After her studies at the University of Dhaka, she worked as a research officer at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh in collaboration with the University of California Davis, Karolinska Institute, and Newcastle University. Afsana published four co-author articles in the field of maternal and infant nutrition in peer-reviewed journals during her tenure at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research.
Afsana has received multiple prestigious fellowship awards in her academic studies at the University of Dhaka and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Afsana is an Othmer fellow at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.