Asif AhmedFRSB is a British-Indian vascular scientist,[1] whose research focuses on reducing the risk of mortality and morbidity in pregnancy.[2] He is the founder and former Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Executive Dean of Aston Medical School, Birmingham,[3] and established the Aston Medical Research Institute, a university-wide multidisciplinary translational research entity at Aston University.[4]
Education and career
Asif Ahmed went to a local comprehensive Aylward School in North London and was subsequently educated at King's College London where he gained his undergraduate degree in pharmacology. He was awarded a Ph.D. for his work on platelet abnormalities in cardiopulmonary bypass surgery from University College London in 1989.[5]
He held the Inaugural Gustav Born Chair of Vascular Biology[7] and was appointed as the Assistant Principal for International Postdoctoral Training at the University of Edinburgh in 2010.[8] Ahmed joined Aston University as the first Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Health in October 2012.[9] He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology in 2013.
Ahmed's laboratory has studied vascular growth factors in pregnancy and preeclampsia.[11] Research topics include the enzyme placental heme oxygenase (HO),[12] carbon monoxide (CO),[13][14] and soluble Flt-1.[15][16]
References
^"Asif Ahmed". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 23 March 2023.
^Ahmed, A; Dunk, C; Kniss, D; Wilkes, M (1997). "Role of VEGF receptor-1 (Flt-1) in mediating calcium-dependent nitric oxide release and limiting DNA synthesis in human trophoblast cells". Laboratory Investigation; A Journal of Technical Methods and Pathology. 76 (6): 779–91. PMID9194854.