Muhammad Hamid Zaman is Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor of Biomedical Engineering and International Health at Boston University. Technologies developed by Prof. Zaman and his lab are in various stages of implementation in a number of developing countries. Scientific American has named technologies from the Zaman lab among the top 10 technologies that will change the world.

His forthcoming book Bitter Pills (Oxford University Press, 2018), looks at the global challenge of substandard and counterfeit drugs and the need for integrated solutions to address the global crisis in the prevalence of substandard drugs, and how they relate to global anti-microbial resistance challenges.

In addition to his research, Prof. Zaman is actively engaged in improving access to quality engineering education, with a multi-disciplinary focus on innovation, in a number of countries in Africa, Middle East and Asia. He is currently involved in setting up biomedical engineering departments at universities in Kenya, Zambia, Uganda, Ghana and Ethiopia that focus on addressing local challenges through innovation and technical capacity building.

Prof. Zaman is a prolific writer and his columns have appeared in newspapers around the world, including the New York Times, Houston Chronicle and US News and World Report. He writes a weekly column on innovation in health and education for leading Pakistan daily, Express Tribune, which is part of the International New York Times group.