Badrul Bony, a postdoctoral researcher from Bangladesh, has joined professor Forrest Kievit’s lab this semester to work on nanoparticles for cancer imaging and therapy.
“Curing cancer is one of the challenges for the human race, and inventing and applying nanomedicine could play a vital role in achieving the final goal,” Bony said. “This possibility works as a driving force and keeps me determined toward my research.”
Bony’s expertise is in synthesizing and characterizing nanoparticles for in-vitro and in-vivo experiments.
Prior to coming to Nebraska, he earned his doctoral degree in South Korea and served there two years as a postdoctoral researcher. He was drawn to Nebraska by the reputation of the university and Kievit.
“The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is one of the reputed universities in the USA and certainly has some of the most prestigious research scholars from the research arena I am interested in,” Bony said. “Dr. Forrest Kievit is one of them. While I was searching for a postdoctoral position, luckily, Dr. Kievit had an opening for a research associate and I did not hesitate to take this opportunity and apply for the position.”
He hopes a personal trait, persistence, will pay off in his cancer research.
“I have a tendency to not give up easily, which is good when you are trying something and most people usually lose hope,” Bony said. “I tend to keep trying until the end.”
When he is not conducting research, he enjoys spending time with family, playing badminton and watching cricket. He is married to fellow postdoctoral researcher Ananna Islam, who is working in South Korea on a Korea Research Fellowship, and they have a daughter, Antolina Alam.