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Asif Ahmed Scientist - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family
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About Asif Ahmed Scientist
- Asif Ahmed FRSB is a British entrepreneurial scientist.
- He is responsible for founding Aston Medical School, the first medical school to be established in the city of Birmingham after 200 years.
- Aston Medical School has social mobility and leadership at the core of its model without compromising entry standards.
- Ahmed's discoveries and his disruptive approach have led to new clinical trials designed to treat the deadliest maternal hypertensive disorder, preeclampsia.
- He is widely recognized as the first person to propose and initiate the first clinical trial on statins to ameliorate severe preeclampsia.
- He has a longstanding interest in the mechanisms of vascular endothelial growth factor signalling, endothelial cell protection and has developed new strategies for preventing preeclampsia.Asif Ahmed is the inaugural Executive Dean of Aston Medical School and Pro-Vice-Chancellor at Aston University.
- He holds the Chair of Vascular Biology and the 50th Anniversary Chair of Translational Medicine.
- In addition, he is the KAU Distinguished Adjunct Professor at King AbdulAziz University and an Honorary Professor at the Jilin University Hospital.
- His main area of research is preeclampsia, angiogenesis and gaseous signalling molecules.
- He established the Aston Medical Research Institute, a university-wide multidisciplinary translational research entity at Aston University.Asif Ahmed is also the founder and the Chairman of MirZyme Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical to be the first spin out company from Aston Medical School, focused on maternal and child health.
