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{{short description|Indian scientist}}
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| fields = [[Nanotoxicology]], [[Pulmonary]] [[Biochemistry]], Geno Toxicity
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'''Qamar Rahman''' is an [[India]]n scientist who has worked extensively in the last 40 years to understand the physiological effects of [[nanoparticles]]. She is known internationally for her work on [[asbestosis]], the effects of slate dust and other household and environmental particulate [[pollution]] and means for improving occupational health.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Rahman|first1=Qatar|title=Lilavathi's Daughters|url=http://www.ias.ac.in/womeninscience/LD_essays/230-233.pdf|access-date=11 October 2014}}</ref>

She is currently the Dean of Research Science and Technology, [[Amity University, Lucknow]], India.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Rahman|first1=Qatar|title=Current position|url=https://in.linkedin.com/pub/qamar-rahman/a/819/41|access-date=31 October 2014}}{{Dead link|date=November 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

[[Rostock University]], Germany awarded honorary doctorate to her in 2009.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Rahman|first1=Qamar|title=Honorary Doctorate|url=http://www.niehs.nih.gov/news/newsletter/2013/8/science-indian/|access-date=11 October 2014}}</ref> Dr.Rahman is the first Indian to receive this honor from this 600-year-old university. She has studied extensively on toxicity of asbestos, [[soot]] and many other pollutants. She has also made a film on the subject of women getting exposed to toxic chemicals in the work place

Her most cited paper<ref>Qamar Rahman, Mohtashim Lohani, [[Elke Dopp]], Heidemarie Pemsel, Ludwig Jonas, Dieter G Weiss, and Dietmar Schiffmann "Evidence that ultrafine titanium dioxide induces micronuclei and apoptosis in Syrian hamster embryo fibroblasts." ''Environ Health Perspect.'' Aug 2002; 110(8): 797–800. {{PMC|124095}}</ref> has been cited 350 times, according to [[Google Scholar]].<ref>[https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=%22Qamar+Rahman%22&btnG=&as_sdt=1%2C33&as_sdtp=]{{dead link|date=July 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.materials-days.eu/matdays09/Vortragende2009/Qamar_Rahman.php Material Days Rostock]

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