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.

He moved to his alma mater, Jamia Millia Islamia that year where he holds the position of a professor and the Dean of the newly created, Faculty of Life Sciences.

[10] He has also been awarded with Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Basanti Devi Amir Chand Prize 2019 by Honorable Health Minister, Govt.

Recently, he received the prestigious Visitor’s Award from President Ram Nath Kovind on Tuesday at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in June 2022 for his pioneering research on resolving the mystery of blood clotting on exposure to hypoxia at high altitudes.

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.