Mahmoud L. Nasr, PhD, is an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and an associate membrane of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. Dr. Nasr specializes in developing and engineering nanodiscs, synthetic saucer-shaped membranes that allow isolation and study of membrane proteins and investigating how viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 and HIV interact with membrane-embedded receptors to gain entry into cells. Dr. Nasr will use nanodisc technology to study the activity of LRRK2, a protein whose overactivity is associated with Parkinson’s disease. He received a doctorate in pharmaceutical sciences from Northeastern University in 2008 before continuing his postdoctoral at Yale University and Harvard University. Dr. Nasr is also an associate professor at Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences in Dubai.