Associate Professor, Molecular, Cellular
and Developmental Biology
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| Michael
J. Mahan Associate Professor, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology |
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He rides a bike to campus. He spends his days in the lab working with mice and petri dishes. And he is all set to change the world, saving the lives of millions of people in the process. Michael Mahan served as a National Institutes of Health post-doctoral fellow in microbial pathogenesis at Harvard Medical School from 1989 to 1993. He joined the UCSB faculty in 1993 and has continued his work in this field—research for which he has won numerous awards. His ground-breaking research on a way to “disarm” bacteria was reported around the world in 1999. Mahan worries about the proliferation of diseases that are resistant to antibiotics. “There are numerous warning signs,” he says. “Our microbial defenses are crumbling as superior pathogens have emerged that can no longer be controlled by available antibiotics.” |