Dr. Zahid completed his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) degree and M.Phil from University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore. He obtained his PhD degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology from University of Strasbourg, France in 2012. After his PhD, Dr. Zahid worked as Assistant Professor at CEMB, Punjab University and University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore. He also worked as adjunct faculty at LUMS, Lahore. Dr. Zahid started his Postdoc at Cornell University in 2015 and then he worked as a Postdoc Fellow at University of Pennsylvania, USA from 2016-2019. He joined University of Bahrain as Assistant Professor in Department of Biology, College of Science in November 2019.