Zeeshan Ahmed is Assistant Professor of Medicine – Tenure Track and Core Member at the Rutgers Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research (IFH); and Department of Medicine – Division of General Internal Medicine, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS), Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences (RBHS), Rutgers University-New Brunswick, NJ. He is a Full Academic Member of the Rutgers Microbiology and Molecular Genetics; Center for Cancer Health Equity, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey; and Rutgers Human Genetics Institute of New Jersey.

Ahmed is focused on dealing with unprecedented challenges in data science and providing a better understanding of biology to revolutionize the field of medicine. His ambitious research is underpinned with skills and resource development to build expertise in sequence-based genomic analysis, clinical variant interpretation, and evidence-based diagnostic and prediction model development and validation. He has developed and published many bioinformatics tools, genomics pipelines, gene-variant-disease annotation databases, mobile health platforms, high-performance computing based frameworks for clinical and multi-omics data analysis and dissemination. Furthermore, he has experience in designing and implementing HIPAA-compliant infrastructures to support various scientific studies with efficient patient recruitment, collected sample data management, and integration with electronic healthcare records (e.g., EPIC, NextGen). His lab at Rutgers (IFH & RWJMS) is driven toward the development of intelligent health systems that systematically incorporate genomic and metabolomic data into clinical care for mainstream precision medicine.

Ahmed completed his Ph.D./Doctor of Science in Bioinformatics with “Magna Cum Laude” at the Department of Bioinformatics, Biocenter, University of Wuerzburg and the Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, Germany.