Nasima Akhter
Nasima Akhter is a Bangladeshi scientist who specializes in nuclear medicine. In 2010, she won the BAS-TWAS Young Scientists Prize for her research involving nuchal translucency for fetal anomalies and research into nuclear cardiology. In 2013, she was honoured with the Elsevier Foundation Award for her work on nuclear medicine and ultrasonography.
Biography
Born in 1970, Nasima Akhter attended Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College, graduating in 1995. She went on to earn an M. Phil from BSMMU and a Ph.D. from Kanazawa University, Japan, followed by training in obstetric ultrasonography at Japan's Kagawa University.In 1998, Akhter began working as a nuclear medicine physician at the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission in Dhaka. She has researched anomalies during the first three months of pregnancy using nunchal translucency. She has also used adjunct medication with radioiodine therapy to research Graves' disease treatment. Her work has also focused on experiments with rats and mice to develop radiotracers for investigating dementia, schizophrenia and tumor growth by means of sigma receptor imaging.