Amir Nasajpour is a graduate student in the Department of Chemistry and a member of C-MIT at UCLA. His undergraduate academic career was supervised by the late Professor Alan Katritzky at the Center of Heterocyclic Chemistry. He has co-authored robust benzotriazole mediated peptide cyclization reactions with the aim to create a library of marine based diketopiperazine compounds, as well highly strained cyclic peptides. At the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, he developed a Rose inspired antimicrobial biomaterial and a multi-functional periodontal nanocomposite membrane in collaboration with the UCLA School of Dentistry Weintraub Center for Reconstructive Biotechnology. At C-MIT, he explores new chemistry and macromolecular engineering to-aid fellow clinicians-to develop minimally invasive methods of surgery, supramolecular based devices for diagnostics, and nanocomposites inspired by nature.

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Contact: anasa@g.ucla.edu