Mahmudur Rahman Choudhury

Mahmudur Rahman Choudhury (Bengali: মাহমুদুর রহমান চৌধুরী ), more commonly known as Major General MR Choudhury, was a medical scientist and physician from Bangladesh who was the Founder Commandant of Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and Transfusion (AFIP&T). The Government of Bangladesh awarded him the Independence Day Award, the highest civilian honor in the country, in 1977. The institution he built up, the AFIP&T also received the same award as a centre of excellence later in 1987. Born on June 1, 1928 in Sylhet, Choudhury graduated from Calcutta Medical College in 1951, as a student of the University of Calcutta and obtained D. Bact. with distinction from the University of London in 1959. He was commissioned in the Pakistan Army Medical Corps in 1952. For his professional excellence as a junior major, Choudhury received a letter of commendation from the Commander in Chief and was honoured with the civil award Tamgha-e-Quaide Azam. After the independence of Bangladesh Choudhury played the key role in establishment of AFIP&T in 1976. He also organised the Bangladesh Society of Microbiologists the same year and was its founder president. Choudhury died on June 24, 1999.