Mohammad Mofrad

Professor, Bioengineering
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

208A Stanley Hall
Mailcode 1762
mofrad@berkeley.edu

For more information, see: https://biomechanics.berkeley.edu/

Research Interests

​Molecular and Multiscale Biomechanics; Bioinformatics and Computational Biology; Statistical Machine Learning; Computational Precision Health; Microbiome; Personalized Medicine

Education

1999 Ph.D., University of Toronto
1994 M.A.Sc., University of Waterloo
1991 B.A.Sc., Sharif University of Technology

Major Awards

• 2020 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Grantee for the Universal Flu Vaccine Grand Challenge
• 2018 Fellow, Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS)
• 2016 AHA National Innovator Research Award
• 2015 American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) Fellow
• 2014 Presidential Chair Fellow (in Curriculum Enrichment)
• 2012 National Academy of Engineering Invitee to ‘Frontiers’ Symposium
• 2012 Minner Faculty Fellow (in Engineering Ethics)
• 2010 National Science Foundation CAREER Award
• 2008 Hellman Faculty Fund Award, UC Berkeley
• 2007 Co-leader of Molecular Biomechanics Group, Summit of Biomechanics
• 2006 University of California Berkeley Futures
• 2005 University of California Regents’ Junior Faculty Fellow
• 2002 Runner-up for American Society of Biomechanics Award, World Congress of Biomechanics

Professional Experience

• 2023-present Core Faculty, UCSF-UC Berkeley Computational Precision Health Graduate Group
• 2014-2015 Faculty Co-Director, Berkeley-UCSF Master of Translational Medicine (MTM) Program
• 2013-present Professor, Departments of Bioengineering and Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
• 2012-present Faculty Scientist, Molecular Biophysics, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
• 2012-2014 Faculty Director, UC Berkeley Master of Bioengineering (M.Eng) Program
• 2012-2013 Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
• 2011 Visiting Professor, Department of Bioengineering, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
• 2010-2013 Associate Professor, Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley
• 2005-2010 Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley
• 2002-2004 Principal Research Scientist, Biological and Mechanical Engineering, MIT
• 2000-2002 Post-Doc, MIT and Harvard Medical School/Mass. General Hospital
• 1999-2000 Post-Doc, Computer Science Department, University of Toronto