Bioinorganic Chemistry

BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
• CHORI (Children’s Oakland Hospital Research Institute): Senior Scientist
• North Carolina State University: Professor Molecular & Structural Biochemistry (adj)
• University of California-Berkeley: Professor of Nutritional Science & Molecular Toxicology (adj)

EDUCATION:
• BS Cornell University (Bacteriology)
• PhD Columbia University (Biochemistry)
• Postdoctoral Training: Florida State University (Chemistry)

HONORS:
• NIH Predoctoral Fellowship and MERIT Award
• O Max Gardner Award: Service to Science and Humanity (The Consolidated University of North Carolina)
• NCSU Alumni Research Award
• Phi Kappa Phi
• Sigma Xi
• NIH Predoctoral Award
• Children’s Hospital and Medical Center Oakland – Lifetime Research Achievement Award
• Olin-Garvan Medal (Am Chem Soc)

MEMBERSHIPS:
Fellow, AAAS

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
How the ferritin protein works is a major project in the Theil Lab. Combinations of genetic engineering and biophysical chemistry approaches probe how iron enters and leaves ferritin. The results will lead to drugs designed to deposit iron in and to remove the iron from ferritin safely and quickly, in diseases, which have abnormal deposits of iron.