Zaffar Equbal graduated in Bioscience from Jamia Millia Islamia, India and obtained a Master’s degree in Genetics from the University of Delhi, India. He then started his PhD under the supervision of Dr. Asok Mukhopadhyay and Dr. Madhulika Srivastava at the National Institute of Immunology, India, and obtained his PhD in March 2019 from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. His PhD thesis work was on exploring the potential of mesenchymal stem cells for cell-based therapy. In addition to it, he was also actively involved in other projects like ‘Understanding the potential of cancer stem cells in the progression of ovarian cancer cells’ and ‘To understand the role of Hematopoietic stem cells in the liver regeneration’. After completing his PhD degree, he worked at the National Centre for Cell Science, India as a Project Scientist on the project entitled ‘Developing bank of human Induced pluripotent stem cells for drug screening, disease modeling, and understanding disease biology.’