Shayan Salehian

Graduate Student, Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Mandë Holford Lab
a person smiling at the camera holding a shell in front of drawers of shells
Mallinckrodt Chemistry Lab
ssalehian@fas.harvard.edu

Shayan is a former pharmacist and now a PhD student in Chemistry and Chemical Biology who is fascinated by venom and marine natural products. He did his Pharm.D. thesis studying the anticancer effects of cone snail venom fractions. He graduated in Pharmacy from Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran (2014 – 2021). His research interest is mostly focused on the discovery of new druggable venom peptides and pursuing novel ways to deliver these precious peptides to their site of action with the help of pharmaceutical nanotechnology.