Mr. Prayash Borah joined as an assistant professor in the department of Medical Laboratory Technology, School of Allied Health Sciences, Girijananda Chowdhury University, on August 21, 2023. He is currently teaching and guiding the students in the BMLT program.
He completed his Bachelor of Science in Medical Laboratory Technology (BSc MLT) in 2021 as well as his Master of Science in Medical Laboratory Technology with specialisation in Pathology (MSc MLT-Pathology) in 2023 from RIPANS (under MoHFW, Govt. of India), Aizawl, affiliated to Mizoram University. During his postgraduation, he did his dissertation on the title “10 Years Retrospective Study of the Reliability of Fine-Needle Aspiration Cytology of Lymph Nodes,” in which he did some of his work at Jorhat Medical College and Hospital.
Presently, he is pursuing his PhD at Girijananda Chowdhury University. He also got the opportunity to participate in an ICMR DHR-sponsored training program on Modern Biology in Health Research (Molecular Biology Techniques) at MGMARI, SBV, Pondicherry, from December 18 to 23, 2023, where twenty candidates were selected across India, and he and his team bagged the awardforbest research presentation at the end of the training. Additionally, he also attendedTROPACON N.E. 2022 (National Conference) as a delegate, organised by the Indian Academy of Tropical Parasitology (IATP), North East Chapter, and Zoram Medical College on November 9 and 10, 2022, with a theme of ‘Emerging and Re-emerging Tropical Parasitic Diseases.’
Aside from academics and research, he enjoys travelling, cooking, meeting new people, learning new skills and exploring new things.
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