Career
She has worked over 25 years on development of vaccines for cholera and has expertise on other infectious disease like ETEC, Typhoid, Helicobacter pylori, rota virus, et cetera Currently, she is working as a director for Centre for Vaccine Sciences of International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease and Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b). She has also focused on studying the immune response in H.pylori infected people in Bangladesh and the responses in patients with typhoid fever as well as vaccinees.
She got her B.Sc and Mississippi degree in biochemistry and molecular biology from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1975 and 1977 respectively.
In 1980, she got her Doctor of Philosophy degree in biochemistry/immunology from Liverpool University, United Kingdom. After completing her postdoc in immunology from icddr,b, she joined as an associate scientist in 1988 in the same institution.
Currently, she is senior scientist and director of Centre for Vaccine Science, icddr,b. Qadri has been trying to introduce new cheap vaccine for cholera in Bangladesh after Dukoral, which is costly for poor people.
As a try of it, she has already introduced Shanchol vaccine in mass population in slam areas in Dhaka.
