Prof. Reza A. Ghiladi PhD

Reza Ghiladi, Associate Professor and the Director of Graduate Programs for the Department of Chemistry at NC State University, received a B.S. in Chemistry from Haverford College in 1995. He then pursued advanced training in synthetic inorganic chemistry with Prof. Ken Karlin at Johns Hopkins University, earning an M.A. in 1997 and a Ph.D. in 2001. Following postdoctoral work at the Mayo Clinic under Prof. Frank Rusnak as the Kendall-Mayo Fellow in Biochemistry, he continued his training as a National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California at San Francisco under Prof. Paul Ortiz de Montellano. Prof. Ghiladi joined the Department of Chemistry at North Carolina State University in 2006, where his teaching and research have focused on exploring the mechanisms of multifunctional heme proteins, as well as a new emerging program in photodynamic antimicrobial materials for controlling nosocomial infections.