June 2005
Dr. Mohammad Mofrad, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, has been awarded a Regent’s Junior Faculty Fellowship for the summer of 2005.
These fellowships provide salary awards to junior faculty for research or enrichment projects undertaken during the summer. Dr. Mofrad is studying the mechanobiology of cell function, or how a cell responds or changes its behavior or properties in response to stresses. As stated by Professor Mofrad, “this project will develop a broad but rigorous computational framework that links mechanical forces to conformational changes in single proteins by coupling biochemical activity with molecular dynamics simulations of protein deformation in a fully three-dimensional filamentous network.”
Congratulations Mohammad!