Mohammad Zahid Ashraf

Mohammad Zahid Ashraf (born in a village named Jalkaura, district-Khagaria, Bihar in 1973) is an Indian biotechnologist and a professor at Jamia Millia Islamia. Known for his studies on thrombosis experienced at high altitudes. Ashraf is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India and Indian Academy of Sciences, and an elected member of the National Academy of Medical Sciences. The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him the National Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to biosciences, in 2017–18.

Mohammad Zahid Ashraf
Born1973
Jalkaura, Khagaria, Bihar, India
NationalityIndian
Alma mater
Known forStudies on venous thrombosis at high altitudes
Awards
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2018, Basanti Devi Amirchand Award, Indian Council of Medical Research 2014, Surg. Rear Admiral M. S. Malhotra Awards, DRDO

2008, Innovations Award, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions

Biography
Jamia Millia Islamia
Deep vein thrombosis of the right leg

Mohammad Zahid Ashraf, born in 1973,[1] graduated in biosciences from Jamia Millia Islamia in 1994 and continued there to secure a master's degree in 1996.[2] Subsequently, he did his doctoral research at Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute which earned him a PhD from the University of Delhi in 2001. His post-doctoral training was at the Lerner Research Institute of Cleveland Clinic and on his return to India, he joined the Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences (DIPAS) in 2009 as a scientist at grade D at its Genomics division which he headed from 2014 till 2017. He moved to his alma mater, Jamia Millia Islamia that year where he holds the position of a professor at the department of biotechnology.[3]

Ashraf leads a team of researchers who are involved in studies in the fields of Cardiovascular biology, Functional genomics, Molecular medicine and Translational biology.[4] He worked among the Indian army soldiers stationed in Siachen Glacier to study the effect of high altitude on venous thrombosis and his studies were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.[5] It was during these studies, he discovered the role played by novel regulator “Calpain” in pathogenesis of thrombosis.[6] He has published a number of articles;[7][note 1] ResearchGate, an online repository of scientific articles has listed 34 of them.[8]

Ashraf resides in Delhi, along the Mall Road.[1]

Awards and honors

Ashraf was elected as a member of the National Academy of Medical Sciences in 2015.[9] and the National Academy of Sciences, India and the Indian Academy of Sciences elected him as a fellow in 2018.[1] The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him the National Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the highest Indian science awards, for him contributions to biosciences, in 2017–18.[10] He is also an invited member of the Pulmonary Vascular Research Institute[11] and a recipient of Innovations Award (2008) of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, P.A. Kurup Oration Award (2014) of the Indian Society for Atherosclerosis Research and the Rear Admiral M. S. Malhotra Award (2014) of the Defence Research and Development Organisation.[12]

Selected bibliography

See also

Notes
  1. Please see Selected bibliography section

References
  1. "The National Academy of Sciences, India - Fellows". www.nasi.org.in. 2019-01-15. Retrieved 2019-01-15.
  2. "Profile on Jamia Millia Islamia" (PDF). Jamia Millia Islamia. 2019-01-15. Retrieved 2019-01-15.
  3. "Jamia - Departments -Department of Biotechnology - Faculty Members - Dr. Mohammad Zahid Ashraf". www.jmi.ac.in. 2019-01-15. Retrieved 2019-01-15.
  4. "Research Focus" (PDF). Jamia Millia Islamia. 2019-01-15. Retrieved 2019-01-15.
  5. Ashraf, Mohammad Zahid; Sharma, Manish; Bajaj, Nitin; Nair, Velu; Khan, Nilofar; Kumari, Babita; Tyagi, Tarun; Chatterjee, Tathagata; Prabhakar, Amit (2017-05-02). "Activation of NLRP3 inflammasome complex potentiates venous thrombosis in response to hypoxia". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114 (18): 4763–4768. doi:10.1073/pnas.1620458114. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 5422823. PMID 28420787.
  6. okhla_admin (2018-09-26). "Jamia's Prof Ashraf work on blood clotting among jawans at Siachen gets rare recognition". Okhla Times. Retrieved 2019-01-15.
  7. "Mohammad Zahid Ashraf - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.co.in. 2019-01-14. Retrieved 2019-01-14.
  8. "Mohammad Z Ashraf - ResearchGate". ResearchGate. 2019-01-14. Retrieved 2019-01-14.
  9. "NAMS Member" (PDF). National Academy of Medical Sciences. 2019-01-15. Retrieved 2019-01-15.
  10. "Awardees of National Bioscience Awards for Career Development" (PDF). Department of Biotechnology. 2019. Retrieved 2017-11-20.
  11. "Zahid Ashraf on PVRI". PVRI. 2019-01-15. Retrieved 2019-01-15.
  12. "Jamia prof elected as Fellow of National Academy of Sciences". news.careers360.com. September 9, 2018. Retrieved 2019-01-15.
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