Makhdum Ahmed

Makhdum Ahmed, MD, PhD is an award-winning physician-scientist and a drug-development leader in the global biopharmaceutical industry. He was Director of the Cancer Moonshots Program at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, a cutting-edge program with a comprehensive action plan to dramatically reduce suffering and death from major cancers. Dr. Ahmed is published widely in the scientific literature and focuses on identifying new treatments for aggressive cancers. His research has led to multiple patents and has been published in prestigious journals, including Science, Blood, and the British Journal of Hematology, among others. Winner of the Australian Leadership Award and the Global Health Corps Fellowship for outstanding leadership and commitment to equitable change in health care, he was also honored by former president George W. Bush at the 17th anniversary event of President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) in Dallas, Texas. Dr. Ahmed lives in Boston.