Dr. Mohsan Saeed is an Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology at Boston University. His laboratory, located at Boston University's National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL), investigates the mechanisms of viral pathogenesis. He completed his DVM at the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan, MPhil in Microbiology at Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan, and PhD in Microbiology at the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. He has been awarded the NIH's MIRA Award, the Charles Hood Foundation Award, the American Lung Association Award, and the 2023 Smith Family Foundation Odyssey Award. His research interests include viruses, viral proteases, virus–host interactions, innate immunity, stem cell-derived infectious systems, and the role of viral proteases in shaping virus–host interactions.