Begum's passion lies in revolutionizing drug design and development through cutting-edge medicinal chemistry techniques. She is particularly driven by the challenge of crafting innovative drugs from natural products, with a strategic focus on incorporating fluorine moieties to enhance their efficacy and address critical challenges in drug development.

Her expertise spans multiple areas of medicinal and synthetic chemistry, including:

• Fluorine chemistry: Enhancing drug properties through strategic fluorination
• Total synthesis of natural products: Developing novel synthetic routes for bioactive molecules
• Carbohydrate chemistry: Exploring complex carbohydrate structures for therapeutic applications
• Synthetic chemistry: Designing and synthesizing innovative drug candidates
• Medicinal chemistry: Advancing pharmaceutical discoveries through molecular design

Additionally, she is deeply interested in emerging approaches in drug discovery, particularly in:

• PROTACs and molecular glues: Novel targeted protein degradation strategies
• LPA receptor signaling pathways: Investigating underexplored mechanisms for therapeutic potential

Her long-term career goal is to pursue a career in academia, where she can contribute to groundbreaking drug discovery research.

• Ph.D. (Medicinal and Organic Chemistry), University of Mississippi, 9/2020–1/2025
• M.S. (Chemistry), University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2019
• B.S. (Chemistry), University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2017