Seti Saryazdi, PhD

Postdoctoral Scholar

Setareh (Seti) completed her Ph.D. in organic chemistry in August 2022 under the guidance of Prof. Robert B. Grossman at the University of Kentucky. Her research primarily focused on developing innovative methodologies for the diamination of alkenes. She extended this work by applying the novel methodology to synthesize ligands for gold(III) complexes, which have potential applications in cancer treatment.

In August 2022, after completing her Ph.D., Seti joined the College of Pharmacy at the University of Kentucky as a postdoctoral scholar, working with Prof. Steven Van Lanen. Her current research involves natural product extraction from bacterial strains found in diseased horse placenta, studying the function and mechanism of NRPS enzymes from the Crossiella equi strain, and investigating a key enzyme involved in tryptophan biosynthesis in pathogenic bacteria, with the goal of developing assays to identify inhibitors for this enzyme.

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