Muhammad is a Professor at York University with appointments in the Departments of Chemistry and Biology and is a world-renowned expert in surface chemistry, cell surface engineering, biomaterials, cell biology and chemical biology. His research combines synthetic chemistry, biomaterials and liposome biophysics to investigate the mechanisms of cell adhesion and migration and to discover new ways to manipulate cell behavior and to create new click chemistry bioconjugation methods. He has several patents on reagents and methods for cell assembly, transfection and bioconjugation molecules. Muhammad has over 100 publications and has received numerous awards including a Damon Runyon Fellowship Award, Burroughs Wellcome Interface Career Award, NSF Career Award and a NSERC Accelerator Award. Muhammad is a Toronto native and received his BSc (Hon) from York University and his PhD from the University of Chicago in chemistry and did a postdoctoral fellowship in the departments of Cell Biology and Systems Biology at Harvard University. Muhammad was also a senior fellow at the Institute of Chemistry and Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School. He was previously a faculty member in the departments of Chemistry and the Carolina Center for Genome Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a recent past Chair of the Chemistry Department at York University.