Mona Ahmed was born in 1989 in Stockholm Sweden. In 2007 she started to study medicine at Karolinska Institutet. During her medical studies she began to pursue a PhD within the framework of Clinical Scientist Training Program. After graduation she got admitted to a combined research medical internship at Karolinska University Hospital and became a licensed physician in 2015. In March 2019, she defended her PhD thesis “Development of probes for molecular imaging - Evaluation in models of inflammation and atherosclerosis” at the Karolinska Institute. She is a resident in Cardiology at Karolinska University Hospital, and is currently pursuing a postdoc research fellowship at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School.