Masmudur M. Rahman is a molecular virologist and assistant professor in the Biodesign Center for Personalized Diagnostics and the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University. He received his bachelor’s and master’s (thesis) degrees from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, and his doctorate from the Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India. His postdoctoral research training was at the laboratory of Dr. Grant McFadden at the Roberts Research Institute, University of Western Ontario, Canada, and the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, where he studied how poxviruses modulate the cellular innate and intrinsic immune responses. He and his research team investigate how innate and intrinsic host factors and signaling pathways regulate virus infection in normal/healthy and transformed/cancer cells and how virus-encoded proteins counteract these cellular factors and signaling pathways. His lab studies one specific oncolytic virus, myxoma virus (MYXV), a member of the poxviruses, to treat various types of cancers using preclinical animal models. His research combines traditional virology techniques, genetic engineering, microscopy (including confocal and transmission electron microscopy), molecular and cellular biology techniques, proteomics, transcriptomics, gene silencing, bioinformatics, and animal (mouse and rabbit) models.