Seminar with Mohammad Fallahi-Sichani, PhD (UVA)
In person only | Hosted by Purvis Lab
About the speaker:
Mohammad Fallahi-Sichani is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Virginia (UVA) and the Basic Science Lead of the Melanoma Translational Research Team at the University of Virginia (UVA) Comprehensive Cancer Center. He received a B.Sc. in Biotechnology from the University of Tehran and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan. He completed his postdoctoral training as a Life Sciences Research Foundation (LSRF) fellow in Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School. At UVA, he leads a cancer systems biology research program, focused on developing and applying high-throughput experimental and data-driven computational approaches to dissect multi-scale processes that govern oncogenesis, therapeutic response, and metastatic progression in heterogeneous human tumors. A central goal of his lab is to understand how tumor cell fate decisions emerge from multivariate interactions among signaling, transcriptional, epigenetic, metabolic, and microenvironmental factors. By iteratively integrating experimental and computational methods, the Fallahi-Sichani lab has discovered novel mechanisms of cellular signaling, plasticity, and heterogeneity in cancer cell states, leading to insights that guide the development of more effective therapies.
Research in the Fallahi-Sichani lab has been funded by NIH (NCI and NIGMS), Department of Defense, as well as multiple cancer research foundations. In the past 10 years, his lab’s research has been recognized by multiple awards, such as the NIH/NCI Pathway to Independence Award, BMES Cell and Molecular Bioengineering (CMBE) Rising Star Award, DoD Career Development Award, UVA Shannon Center Mid-Career Fellowship, and V Foundation for Cancer Research V Scholar Award.
