[2] Born in 1970, Nasima Akhter attended Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College, graduating in 1995.

[1] In 1998, Akhter began working as a nuclear medicine physician at the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission in Dhaka.

[3] 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.

In 2010, she won the BAS-TWAS Young Scientist Prize and in 2013, she was honoured with the OWSD-Elsevier Foundation Award for her pioneering work in medicine and life sciences.

[1][2] In addition to a monetary prize, The Elsevier award included attendance at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Boston.