Vamsi K. Mootha

Vamsi Mootha is a Professor of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School and Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He directs a research laboratory dual-localized at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Broad Institute that specializes in mitochondrial bioenergetics and disease. As a high school senior, Vamsi won first place in the Mathematics category of the International Science and Engineering Fair. He completed his B.S. in Mathematical and Computational Sciences at Stanford, his MD in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, clinical training in internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and postdoctoral training at Whitehead Institute. He is a recipient a MacArthur Prize, Lurie Prize, Keilin Medal, a Padma Shri from the Government of India, and an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Mootha competed in ISEF from 1987–1989 and in the 1989 Science Talent Search.

He joined the Society’s Board of Trustees in 2026.