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Photo Michael J. Mahan
Professor, Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Department
Professor, Interdepartmental Biomedical Sciences and Engineering Program


Bio

Dr. Mahan received his B.S. degree in Biochemistry (1978) and an M.S. degree in Genetics (1982) at the University of California, Davis, and a Ph.D. in Genetics (1988) at the University of Utah. As an NIH post-doctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School (1989-1993), his research interest was in microbial pathogenesis and vaccine development, and has continued this area of research since joining the UCSB faculty in 1993. Dr. Mahan shared the AAAS Newcomb-Cleveland Prize (1994) for the outstanding paper published in Science. Additionally, he has received an American Cancer Society Junior Faculty Research Award (1995); a Beckman Young Investigator Award (1995); the Harold J. Plous Award (1998) for the top Assistant Professor in the College of Letters and Science (UCSB); and the Mathers Foundation Senior Research Scholar Award (2004). Dr. Mahan was Co-founder and Director of Remedyne Corporation (1999-2003), a biotech company in Santa Barbara, California, focused on developing vaccines and antimicrobials; and served on the Editorial Board for the Journal of Molecular Medicine (2001-2004). Additionally, Dr. Mahan was the recipient of the UCSB Faculty Distinguished Teaching Award (2006).

Contact Information

Phone: (805) 893-7160
Fax: (805) 893-4724
E-Mail: mahan@lifesci.ucsb.edu
Office: Bio II, Room 2129

Mailing Address

Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106



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