Dr. Ghadiri is Professor, Departments of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, and Member of the Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, at The Scripps Research Institute. Dr. Ghadiri's research interests include: de novo design of synthetic proteins and enzymes; self-assembling peptide nanotubes and biomaterials; article transmembrane ion channels and antimicrobial agents; design of novel biosensors; self-replicating molecular systems and self-organized chemical networks; and molecular computation. He is recipient of a number of awards including: the Searle Scholars Award, Arnold and Mabel Beckman Young Investigator Award, Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, American Chemical Society Award in Pure Chemistry, Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology, Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, and Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.