URB About URB Research & Publications Training & Programs Collaboration Work with Us Donate News & Events NGOAB Research Clinic Services Community Education(Uthan Boithok/Training) URB News Recent News From 4 – 8 August 2019, Dr. Ashok K. Giri, Ph.D., from the CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, in Kolkata, India conducted a hands-on training - “Human Lymphocyte Culture for Chromosomal Aberrations Assay and Micronucleus Assays in Human Lymphocyte Culture and also from Buccal Mucosa Cells and Human Urothelial Cells.” Recent News Over the past few years UChicago Research Bangladesh (URB), icddrb, and Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) have been jointly implementing a project on air pollution and health impacts in their study sites. Recent News On 18 July 2018, Professor Syed Modasser Ali, Chairman of BMRC , visited UChicago Research Bangladesh’s (URB’s) field office. MORE NEWS >> Recent Publications Tamayo L, Lin H, Ahmed A, Shahriar H, Hasan R, Sarwar G, Eunus M, Ahsan H, Pierce BL. Research Participants' Attitudes towards Receiving Information on Genetic Susceptibility to Arsenic Toxicity in Rural Bangladesh. Public Health Genomics 2020; 23(1-2):69-76. doi: 10.1159/000505632. PMID: 32069464. Aschebrook-Kilfoy B, Kibriya MG, Jasmine F, Stepniak L, Gopalakrishnan R, Craver A, Zakin P, Tasmin S, Kim KE, Goss KH, List M, LeBeau M, Ahsan H. Cohort profile: the ChicagO Multiethnic Prevention and Surveillance Study (COMPASS). BMJ Open. 2020 Sep 16; 10(9):e038481. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-038481. PMID: 32938600. Demanelis K, Jasmine F, Chen LS, Chernoff M, Tong L, Delgado D, Zhang C, Shinkle J, Sabarinathan M, Lin H, Ramirez E, Oliva M, Kim-Hellmuth S, Stranger BE, Lai TP, Aviv A, Ardlie KG, Aguet F, Ahsan H; GTEx Consortium, Doherty JA, Kibriya MG, Pierce BL. Determinants of telomere length across human tissues. Science. 2020 Sep 11; 369(6509):eaaz6876. doi: 10.1126/science.aaz6876. PMID: 32913074. More Publications >>