Mo Khalil's Biography

Mo Khalil, Innovation Career Development Professor and Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University

Mo Khalil is the Innovation Career Development Professor and Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Boston University. He serves as the Associate Director and Founding Core Member of the Boston University Center of Synthetic Biology. He is also a Visiting Scholar at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University. His research is broadly focused on understanding how cells use molecular networks to process information and make decisions. His lab employs multidisciplinary approaches, with emphasis on synthetic biology, to explore and engineer these complex cellular systems. He is recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, and has received numerous awards for achievements in life science innovation, including a Kern Faculty Fellowship, a Wallace H. Coulter Translational Award, and a Dean’s Catalyst Award. He has also received awards for teaching excellence and was selected to attend the 2014 National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering Education. Mo was an HHMI Postdoctoral Fellow with Dr. James Collins at Boston University. He completed his Ph.D. with Dr. Angela Belcher at MIT, where he was awarded a Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Graduate Fellowship. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and a minor in Chemistry.