Nasima S. Chowdhury is a Post-doctoral Fellow in the Rahman Lab at King’s College London. She earned a Bachelor of Pharmacy in 1992 and a Master of Pharmacy in 1993 from Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh. She worked at BIRDEM in Dhaka, a WHO Collaborating Centre, where she spent more than a decade investigating plant-based therapeutics and contributing to collaborative studies on young-onset diabetes.
She obtained her PhD at Teesside University, UK, in 2015, under the supervision of Professor Janey Henderson, studying the regulation of inducible nitric oxide synthase by probiotics in cell culture models. Her research at King’s now focuses on in vitro evaluation of novel anticancer and antimicrobial agents, with particular emphasis on efflux-resistant antimicrobials under development in the Rahman Lab.
She has long-standing expertise in translational research and the potential of natural products for therapeutic development. Beyond her academic work, she enjoys gardening, crocheting, beading, singing, and reading novels.