Mathew L Thakur, an Indian-American physician- scientist, has won the prestigious Benedict Cassen Prize this year. The Cassen Prize is considered the equivalent of a Nobel in the field of nuclear medicine research. 

At the recently held 55th Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, Thakur was bestowed the biennial $25,000 award. 

As a visiting scholar at the Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis and associate professor of radiology at the Yale University School of Medicine, Thakur has worked extensively on developing and evaluating radiopharmaceuticals for diagnostic imaging and therapy. With this, Thakur joins the company of other eight researchers who have been presented the Cassen Prize.