text: Mollapour holds a BSc (Hons) in Microbiology and Biochemistry from the University of East London, MSc in Applied Molecular Biology of Infectious Diseases and Diploma in Tropical Medicine & Infectious Diseases from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. In 2001 he received his PhD in [https://www.ucl.ac.uk/biosciences/departments/structural-and-molecular-biology%29 Biochemistry] from the University College London.