Recent News.

September 2011 - Congratulation to Jennifer D’Antonio on coauthoring a paper on Dehaloperoxidase for Biochemistry.

August 2011 - Congratulations to Dr. Rania Dumarieh on the successful defense of her Ph.D. thesis!

July 2011 - Congratulations to Dr. Elke Feese on the acceptance of her paper to Biomacromolecules on the antimicrobial properties of porphyrin-nanocrystals.

March 2011 - Congratulations to Dr. Elke Feese on the successful defense of her thesis!

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Research projects in the Ghiladi group focus on the multiple roles of metal ions in biology and medicine, with the goals of elucidating enzyme pathways pertinent to disease states, understanding fundamental mechanisms of metalloenzymes involved in biocatalysis, investigating the limits of protein design and engineering, and the emergence of metallodrugs in pharmaceutical chemistry. We intend to address each of these objectives using a highly interdisciplinary approach that is unique to the bioinorganic chemist. Namely, that enzymology, spectroscopy, molecular biology, synthetic inorganic chemistry, and protein biochemistry are all integral parts of the bigger picture of how metals interact with their environment in biological systems.