Muhammad Hamid Zaman is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor of Biomedical Engineering and International Health at Boston University. He is the first Pakistani to receive the Howard Hughes Professorship. Zaman has a weekly op-ed column in the Express Tribune and frequently has op-eds in Huffington Post and other publications. He is an op-ed columnist for the Project Syndicate as well. He published a book in 2018 called Bitter Pills and one in 2020 called Biography of Resistance.