Muhammad Hamid Zaman

Muhammad Hamid Zaman is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor of Biomedical Engineering and International Health at Boston University. He is the first Pakistani to receive the Howard Hughes Professorship.[1]

Muhammad H. Zaman
Born
Islamabad, Pakistan
EducationUniversity of Chicago (MS)
University of Chicago (Ph.D)

Zaman received his Masters from the University of Chicago in 2000 and his PhD. from the University of Chicago in 2003, studying Physical Chemistry. He was a Burroughs-Wellcome Interdisciplinary Research Fellow there. He then worked at MIT as a Herman and Margaret Sokol Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow in Cancer Research. At Boston University, his current research focuses on understanding cancer progression and on developing the technologies needed for healthcare problems with cancer.[2] He is also involved in helping to start biomedical engineering departments at universities in Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia and Zambia. He is the co-director of the UN Africa Biomedical Initiative.[1]

Zaman has a weekly op-ed column in the Express Tribune[3] and frequently has op-eds in Huffington Post and other publications.[4][5][6] He is an op-ed columnist for the Project Syndicate as well.[1] He published a book in 2018 called Bitter Pills[7] and one in 2020 called Biography of Resistance.[8][9]

Honors and recognition

In 2013, Scientific American named one of the technologies from the Zaman lab, PharmaCheck, as one of the 10 technologies that will change the world.[10] He was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 2020 in the fields of medicine and health.[8]

References
  1. "Muhammad Hamid Zaman's Profile |". Global Young Academy. Retrieved 2020-08-31.
  2. "Muhammad Zaman, Ph.D. | Zaman Laboratory". www.bu.edu. Retrieved 2020-08-31.
  3. "Muhammad Hamid Zaman, Author at The Express Tribune". The Express Tribune. Retrieved 2020-08-31.
  4. "Dangerous convergence: COVID-19, substandard antibiotics and AMR | Quality Matters | U.S. Pharmacopeia Blog". qualitymatters.usp.org. Retrieved 2020-08-31.
  5. "Muhammad Hamid Zaman". The Daily Star. 2015-08-17. Retrieved 2020-08-31.
  6. "How engineers can ease the refugee crisis". Arab News. 2017-08-19. Retrieved 2020-08-31.
  7. "Muhammad Hamid Zaman, Ph.D." qualitymatters.usp.org. Retrieved 2020-08-31.
  8. "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Muhammad Hamid Zaman". Retrieved 2020-08-31.
  9. "Muhammad H. Zaman - Google Scholar". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2020-08-31.
  10. Yuhas, Daisy (December 1, 2013). "The End of Bad Meds". Scientific American.
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