Mohamad Abedi

About Mohamad Abedi

Mohamad Abedi is an Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he leads the Abedi Lab for Synthetic Signaling. His lab develops AI-designed proteins and synthetic biology tools to reprogram how cells sense, compute, and communicate, with the goal of creating next-generation immunotherapies for cancer and other diseases.

Mohamad was born to Palestinian refugees in the United Arab Emirates and immigrated to the United States after his family’s long resettlement process. Experiences with limited access to healthcare in refugee communities helped motivate his path toward bioengineering. He earned his BS in Biomedical Engineering from the University of California, Irvine, and his PhD in Bioengineering from the California Institute of Technology as a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow and NSF Graduate Research Fellow. He then completed postdoctoral training at the University of Washington Institute for Protein Design, where he developed de novo designed cytokines and programmable signaling proteins.