E59: Prof. Asif Ahmed - Leveraging your Passion to Drive your Purpose

In this week’s episode we are joined by the visionary Prof. Asif Ahmed who shares with us some of the highlights of his amazing life and career. We start from the very beginning and explore life as a scientist and the importance of curiosity. We touch on the roles his father and mentors played in achieving his early found success as a vascular scientist, discovering two protective pathways to stop pre-eclampsia during pregnancy. Prof. shares his lofty vision to ensure no mother suffers from pre-eclampsia ever again by the end of the decade. We delve into his passion for social mobility and why he founded Aston Medical school alongside some of the challenges he faced. In this episode we discover so many stories and the amazing figures he has met including Late Prof Gustav Born and Late Hans Adolf Krebs among many others. Prof. Asif Ahmed tells us about the amazing work they are doing at MirZyme Therapeutics which has just now discovered a cure for pre-eclampsia. 

https://www.mirzyme.com/post/scientists-at-mirzyme-have-developed-a-breakthrough-miracle-cure-for-preeclampsia

Tune in to learn his ‘Principles of the 5Ps of Life’ : Purpose, Persuasion, Persistence, Profession and (additional) Passions

Professor Asif Ahmed is the founder and CEO of MirZyme Therapeutics, an early-stage biopharmaceutical company with globally granted patents to develop drugs to prevent preeclampsia. He is a British biomedical scientist and has discovered two protective pathways to stop preeclampsia during pregnancy. He founded the Aston Medical School in 2014, which was the first medical school to be established in the city of Birmingham, England, after a period of 200 years. It is described as the most socially inclusive medical school in the UK. Prof. has discovered two protective pathways to stop preeclampsia during pregnancy. Their saying is simple ”One Test. One Pill. Save Two Lives.”

To learn more:

https://twitter.com/ProfAsifAhmed

www.asifahmed.uk

https://www.mirzyme.com/

 

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