Professor Dr. Imtiaj Hasan was born in Rajshahi, Bangladesh in 1980. Securing first class with first position in both B.Sc and M.Sc examinations from the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh, he joined the said Department as a lecturer in 2010. After getting an M.Phil degree from the University of Rajshahi in 2013, he received Ph.D. degree in 2020 from Yokohama City University, Japan. Getting promoted to the position of Professor in 2022, Dr. Hasan completed a post-doctoral fellowship program at Japan in 2023 and now he is serving as the Chairman of the Department of Microbiology in the University of Rajshahi. He is a deputy council member of the Asia Pacific Protein Association (APPA) from Bangladesh and published 110 articles in reputed international journals. Prof. Hasan served as the guest editor of ‘MDPI Publishing House’ and review editor of the journal ‘Frontiers in Drug Discovery’. He is the current advisor of Rajshahi University Student Chapter of the American Society of Microbiology (ASM-RU) and former moderator of the Rajshahi University Research Society (RURS). Dr. Hasan is a life member of ‘Bangladesh Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology’ and ‘Bangladesh Society for Microbiologists’. Under his supervision, several Ph.D, M.Phil and M.Sc students are working on antimicrobial and anticancer activities of proteins and nanoparticles against drug-resistant microbes and different cancer cell lines, respectively.