Vamsi Mootha is an Indian-American physician-scientist and computational biologist. He holds the position of Professor of Systems Biology and Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He is also a Senior Associate Member of the Broad Institute.
He is a 2004 recipient of the Macarthur Foundation "genius award" for his contributions to mitochondrial biology and genomics. He received the 2008 Daland Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Clinical Investigation from the American Philosophical Society.
He received his BS in Mathematical and Computational Science from Stanford University in 1993 and his M.D. from Harvard University in 1998. He completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and then pursued postdoctoral training at the Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research.
He was raised in Beaumont, Texas.