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Dr. N. Zaheer Ahmed, completed his BUMS degree from Govt. Unani Medical College, Chennai and MD in Moalajat (Unani Medicine) from NIUM, Bangalore. He also holds Diploma in Hospital Management from NIHFW, Govt of India. Presently he is Director General, CCRUM, New Delhi from June 2023, prior to which he was Deputy Director (U) of RRIUM, Chennai since 2017. He is actively engaged in clinical research and rendered his services to the CCRUM, M/o Ayush, Govt. of India for over 3 decades. He has carried out various IMR, EMR projects, in-house and collaborative clinical and pre-clinical studies as principal investigator & co-investigator. He is also a co-investigator in the NMPB project of Regional raw drug repository- Southern plateau region. He is an external examiner of PhD program in Moalejat of National Institute of Unani Medicine, Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bengaluru, since 2019. He is a Gold Medal awardee for securing highest rank in BUMS final year and also honoured with Gold medal for securing highest marks in Moalajat in the year 1990. He was conferred with various other awards, most importantly Best researcher award by Hamdard Laboratories, New Delhi in 2007, Best paper presentation award from Unani stream in 1st International AYUSH conference & Exhibition 2017, 8-11th Nov at Dubai, UAE and Best research paper publication award by CCRUM, M/o AYUSH, Govt. of India in 2018. He has attended and presented papers in around 60 national & international conferences and seminars within the country and abroad. He attended more than 24 training programs, delivered more than 75 public and guest lectures. He has over 100 scientific publications to his credit in peer reviewed journals.