NEWS
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Jan 2026
Nov 2025
Two papers got published, congrats to Masoud and Elham!
Aug 2025
Our lab welcomes new members, graduate students; Ryan and Irina, technician; Sang, undergraduate student; Arly and high school student: Ameneh! Welcome aboard!
Aug 2025
Dr. Sarmazdeh has received the NIH NIGMS R35 MIRA Award.
June 2025
Dr. Sarmazdeh has received the NSF CAREER Award.
Jan 2025
Our paper on understanding the effects of TIMP variants in Brain Cancer has been published. Congrats, Elham!
Greg received the Robert E. Dickenson Scholarship Scholarship!
Nov 2024
Dr. Sarmazdeh gave an invited talk at the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Arkansas.
Oct 2024
Dr. Sarmazdeh gave an invited talk at the "Building Bridges Across NIH and the Broader Engineering Community" in Bethesda, MD.
The Sarmazdeh lab presented three talks at the AIChE annual meeting in San Diego, CA including an invited talk for Dr. Sarmazdeh in a protein engineering session.
Sep 2024
Dr. Sarmazdeh gave an invited talk at the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of South Florida.
Congratulations to Masoud for publishing his antibody engineering work with our collaborators. Read it here.
July 2024
Dr. Sarmazdeh gave an invited talk at the Biochemical and Molecular Engineering XXIII conference, in Dublin, Ireland.
June 2024
Dr. Sarmazdeh gave an invited talk at the Gordon Proteolytic Conference, in Tuscany, Italy.
May 2024
Congrats to Ethan Mosca for the successful defense of his MS thesis!
April 2024
Dr. Sarmazdeh gave an invited lecture on protein expression and purification at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), NY.
Dr. Sarmazdeh attended the NIH NIA AFAR meeting in Maryland.
Dr. Sarmazdeh gave an invited talk at the Festival of Biologics, San Diego, CA.
March 2024
A new paper in Current Opinion of Biotechnology: "Engineering metalloproteinase inhibitors: tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases or antibodies, that is the question." Congrats, Masoud, Greg, and Ethan! Read the paper here.
Feb 2024
Dr. Sarmazdeh is part of a team that received a grant from the Department of Energy (DOE) to purify rare elements using peptide engineering. Read the News Here.
Jan 2024
Dr. Sarmazdeh gave a talk at Protein Lorne Conference, Australia.
POSITIONS
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We are hiring at multiple levels.
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We have opening for 1-2 motivated PhD student with great communication and organizational skills, and interest and skills in protein engineering and design from Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering, and related disciplines.
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Our research group is an active diverse group dedicated to interdisciplinary research.
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Interested applicants should email their transcripts, and a CV including their skills, publications and list of your references to Dr. Sarmazdeh (maryamr@unr.edu).
CONTACT
Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering
University of Nevada, Reno
1664 N. Virginia Street, Mail Stop 0388
Reno, Nevada 89557
Research Laboratories: WNPEB 247-246B
Office: WNPEB 207
Email: maryamr@unr.edu
Office Phone: (775) 682-8494