Kamaluddin Ahmad

Ahmad joined the University of Dhaka where he established the Department of Biochemistry in 1957.^[1] He was awarded the Pakistan Academy gold medal in Physical Sciences.^[3] He received a Research fellowship from the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization.^[3] He received the Commonwealth Travelling fellowship and taught at the University of Chicago, Harvard University, Tufts University, University of Wisconsin, University of Lincoln, and the University of Calcutta.^[3] He was the chairman of the Committee on Nutrition Survey and Surveillance of the International Union of Nutritional Sciences.^[3] In 1960, he was made a fellow of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences.^[3]

Ahmad received the Tamgha-e-Quaid-e-Azam and Sitara-i-Khidmat from the government of Pakistan.^[3] He received the Sonali Bank Gold Medal from the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences.^[3] He was the chairman of the Scientific Research Committee, Research Review Committee, and Ethical Review Committee of the International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh.^[3] He was the chairperson of the Standing Technical Committee of Bangladesh National Nutrition Council.^[3] He is a former president of the Bangladesh Association for the Advancement of Science.^[3]

Ahmad established the Department of Pharmacy and Institute of Nutrition and Food Science in 1964 and 1969 respectively.^[1] In the 1960s, he performed the first nutrition survey of East Pakistan.^[3] From 1969 to 1971, he was the Vice-Chancellor of the Bangladesh Agricultural University. He performed further surveys in Bangladesh in the 1970s and 1980s.^[3] He was a syndicate board member of Bangladesh Agricultural University, Jahangirnagar University, and the University of Chittagong.^[3]

Ahmad retired from the University of Dhaka in 1984.^[1] He established Bangladesh Institute of Herbal Medicine, Nutrition and Social Development located in Savar Upazila.^[1] In 1996, he established the Centre for Biomedical Research at the University of Dhaka.^[1] He was one the founders of Bangladesh Academy of Sciences and had served as its president.^[1] He was a fellow of the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, The World Academy of Sciences, and the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences.^[3]

Ahmad died on 4 July 2004.^[1]