Recent Publication preprint on “Tunable thermal bioswitches for in vivo control of microbial therapeutics”!
Weekend conference in NYC with the Soros Fellows!
Dinner/Iftar with the President!
Article featured on Caltech’s Website!
http://www.caltech.edu/news/abedi-receives-fellowship-new-americans-46522
Paul & Daisy 2015 class in the New York Times!
Paul & Daisy 2015 class announcement!
http://www.pdsoros.org/current_fellows/#abedi
Mentioned by the president during my graduation ceremony!
Presidential ShoutOut published in the Samueli School of Engineering Magazine! [Page 59]
http://issuu.com/ucisamuelischool/docs/2013-14_uci_dean_s_report
Graduating Student Interview Resources Posted my Biography!
Mohamad Abedi: 949-278-1609, abedim@uci.edu The Henry Samueli School of Engineering. Mohamad originally wanted to be a doctor. He transferred to UCI from Irvine Valley College as a junior and will graduate in June 2014 with a B.S. in biomedical engineering. A Palestinian, Abedi spent summers as a child visiting family in Lebanon refugee camps. The suffering he witnessed left him with a desire to help people. His family lived in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates where his father worked in construction. After high school, Abedi immigrated to Irvine. His younger sister and mother followed. At the Samueli School of Engineering, Abedi discovered biomedical engineering and began doing research in Assistant Professor Elliot Hui’s lab. Abedi first worked on a project that explored building computers that run on air instead of electricity, which could be used to develop diagnostic devices for rural areas. Now he is engineering proteins to control the behavior of cells using light, hoping that this technology will enable the treatment of brain diseases using light. “As a biomedical engineer, you can do something that may affect hundreds, thousands, maybe even millions of people at a time,” he says. He recently received a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, recognizing him as one of the future leaders in his field, and he is headed to Caltech for graduate school.
Hi! I'm Mohamad Abedi* 