By the late 1990s a few eager microbiology graduates including a few of our young faculty members took activity to make an appropriate and potential platform for the graduate and the present students to be aware of the progressing upgrades within the field of Microbiology and thereby resolving their issues with respect to work and research opportunities in the field as well to initiate programs and organize occasions imperative to the graduates, their alma mater, and in the national intrigued. On impact the “Graduate Microbiologists Association” (GMA) was established in 1997 with its first President Dr. Munirul Alam.

In early 2000, a group of ex-students dwelling within the USA made an overseas-based alumni association to ensure that the alumni can keep in touch with one another and remain associated with their alma mater, and additionally to cater to the extending alumni base around the globe. It was registered in late 2000 as “Dhaka University Microbiology Alumni Association” (DUMAA), Maryland (USA), Incorporation, and Dr. Akhtaruzzaman Molla was its founder President.

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