Farhana Tasnim Chowdhury completed her B.Sc. and M.Sc. from the Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Dhaka. She was awarded with the prestigious Dean’s Award, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Dhaka, and Bangladesh Government Scholarship for achieving an outstanding result in Honors. She also received the National Science and Technology Fellowship from the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Bangladesh. After graduation, she joined the Molecular Biology Laboratory, University of Dhaka, as a research assistant and then moved to the Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Dhaka, as a lecturer in 2018. Now she is working as an assistant professor in the same department. She is also continuing her work as a research associate at the Molecular Biology Lab, University of Dhaka. She has been working on microbial bioactivity and antimicrobial compounds for more than seven years and is now focusing on applications of microbial secondary metabolites as antibiotics and their potential applications in plant growth promotion and the jute retting process. She also contributed to the Hilsa genome and transcriptome sequencing project carried out at the University of Dhaka. She has published four book chapters, two review articles and seven international research articles in different peer-reviewed journals and participated in more than 20 national and international conferences, workshops, and seminars. She also attended and presented her work at the American Society for Microbiology-Microbe 2019 conference held in San Francisco, California, USA. Additionally, she presented her research findings at a symposium on "Molecular Biology of Leishmania" hosted by the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) in Trieste, Italy.

She had been the co-principal investigator of four research projects funded by different organizations like the University Grants Commission of Bangladesh, the Ministry of Science and Technology, and the University of Dhaka. She also won the Islamic Development Bank Roadshow Research Grant Competition. She is an active member of ASM, BSBMB, and GBA.

She is also working as a house tutor in Ruqayyah Hall, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, where she acts as part of the administrative team and performs community involvement work. She is also the founding and organizing member of the Environment Club at Ruqayyah Hall, where she engages students actively in the environment awareness activity and provides them with chances to acquire the mind-sets, principles, and abilities required to safeguard and enhance the environment.