Starting its journey on 3 November, 2008 with the joining of its first Chairman Professor K Siddique-e Rabbani, this department aims high, to make it one of the centrepieces of Biomedical Physics and Technology in the Third World. This post-graduate multidisciplinary department emphasises research and development at the PhD level aimed at delivering the benefits of modern healthcare technology to
the common people in the Third World countries like Bangladesh, home to about 80% of the global population. Later, at 2012 the department started M.S. courses in order to create manpower for developing healthcare technology locally, and for creating manpower to understand, install and operate radiotherapy and other sophisticated equipment in hospitals, and to assist medical doctors in preparing treatment plans using these devices. Depending on the research programmes of the department, and the consent of individual supervisors, candidates from any field of science, engineering and Medicine may apply for the PhD, MPhil and M.S. programmes following the rules and regulations of the university. Candidates pursuing an M.Phil programme may later be transferred to a PhD programme if they demonstrate adequate capability, following university rules. This new department stands on 30 years of R&D in the Department of Physics, which has already produced a few innovations that have made its name known in the International arena. Already Universities and research institutions in UK, Norway, Korea and Singapore have taken up further work on these innovations.
