Faisal Mahmood

Advisor and Scientific Cofounder

Faisal Mahmood, PhD is an Associate Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School and the Division of Computational Pathology at the Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), part of Mass General Brigham. He is also an Associate Member of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, and a Faculty Affiliate of the Harvard Data Science Initiative at Harvard University. At BWH, Faisal leads the AI for Pathology Lab which, develops breakthrough AI applications in biology and medicine, with a focus on developing multimodal and generative AI for objective diagnosis, prognosis, and biomarker discovery. Faisal's research outlook spans the gamut of pathology, from preclinical investigation of AI methods for 3D and multimodal pathology, to real-world clinical studies investigating cancers of unknown primary and transplant assessment, as well as next-generation development of foundation AI models for general pathology intelligence. Faisal was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, where he led the research and development of generative AI applications for computational endoscopy. Faisal received his PhD in Biomedical Imaging from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology in Japan.