Muhammad Yousaf Biography
Muhammad N. Yousaf was born in Pakistan and moved to Toronto Canada with his family at an early age. He did all his formal education in Toronto and studied inorganic chemistry at York University in Toronto as an undergraduate with Prof. Dennis Stynes. He then moved to the US and pursued his PhD studies in surface chemistry and material science at the University of Chicago with Milan Mrksich followed by a cell biology postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University with Marc Kirschner.
Dr. Yousaf has recently returned to his hometown of Toronto and his alma mater and is currently a Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biology at York University (2011). He previously was on the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (USA) (2005-2011). His research interests are in interfacing organic, bioanalytical, bioengineering and cell biology research to study fundamental cell behavior and to develop new biomaterials and tools for regenerative medicine applications.
As a PI since 2005, he has published more than 60 original papers, given over 100 seminars at universities and conferences including plenary and named lectureships and has been elected to serve on 5 journal advisory and editorial boards. He is the founding Editor in Chief of the journal Bio-orthogonal chemistry (launch 2012) and Editor in Chief for the American Journal of Molecular and Cellular Biology. His research has been highlighted multiple times in Nature, Science and Chemical and Engineering News and several print and online media circulars. Dr. Yousaf has received several national USA awards including, a Damon Runyon Fellowship, Burroughs Wellcome Interface Career Award and an NSF CAREER award. Dr. Yousaf is very proud of his highschool, undergraduate and graduate students who have also received numerous national awards including, Barry Goldwater Award, Churchill Scholar (Cambridge), NSF Predoctoral Fellowship, Westinghouse Awards and a Nobel Laureate Lindau Meeting award.

Muhammad Yousaf