Mohamad Abedi
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
BIOENGINEERING
abedim@g.ucla.edu
RESEARCH AND INTERESTS
- Computational protein design and synthetic biology
- Cell engineering and synthetic signaling
- Immunoengineering and cancer immunotherapy
- Engineered cytokines, receptors, and cell communication
- Machine learning, automation, and high-throughput experimentation
NOTABLE PUBLICATIONS AND BOOKS
EDUCATION
- B.S Biomedical Engineering, UC Irvine ,2014
- Ph.D. Bioengineering, Caltech, 2021
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
2026 — Cytokine Society-Regeneron New Investigator Award
2026 — Michelson Prizes: Next Generation Grants Awardee
2021–2024 — HHMI Fellow of the Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund
2014–2019 — National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow
2015–2018 — Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow