Mark Chapman, PhD

Associate Professor, Integrated Engineering

• PhD, University of California, San Diego
  
• MS, University of California, San Diego
  
• BS, University of Minnesota
  

Mark A. Chapman, PhD, is an associate professor of integrated engineering at the University of San Diego.  He joined the Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering in 2019 to define, develop and teach the biomedical engineering concentration area within the integrated engineering major.  Dr. Chapman received his MS and PhD from the University of California, San Diego in bioengineering where his research focused on skeletal muscle biomechanics and disease.  From 2015 - 2018, he was a postdoctoral scholar at the Karolinska Institute (KI) in Stockholm, Sweden where his research examined how human skeletal muscle gene expression is altered with life-long exercise. Dr. Chapman maintains an affiliated researcher position at KI where he continues to conduct research and supervise students. His current research interests lie in bioinformatics, exercise physiology and understanding skeletal muscle disease.

In 2020, Dr. Chapman was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), entitled IRES Track I: US-Sweden Clinical Bioinformatics Research Training Program. This NSF grant from the Office of International Science and Engineering has allowed him to create a summer bioinformatics research program for U.S. students at the Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab) in Stockholm, Sweden. Specifically, this grant has funded a total of 20 students over three years from primarily undergraduate institutions in Southern California to conduct 10 weeks of bioinformatics research at SciLifeLab. This program helped Dr. Chapman strengthen his existing research collaborations in Sweden and provided an exciting international research experience for students. Read more about the program here. In 2024, Dr. Chapman was awarded another NSF grant, entitled IRES: Artificial Intelligence and Data Science for the Understanding, Prediction and Prevention of Disease (AI-UPP) which builds on the successes from his previous grant. This program will fund eight undergraduate students per year over three years from institutions in the U.S., including USD, to conduct biomedical engineering research in Stockholm, Sweden. Read more about the program here.  

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Areas of Expertise

Office Hours

• GENG 330
• GENG 432