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As an undergraduate student, Parisa Hosseinzadeh was trained as a molecular biologist. Her interest in proteins led to her graduate research on the rational design of metalloproteins in the lab of Dr. Yi Lu at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of David Baker at the Institute for Protein Design, she helped develop new computational tools to design cyclic peptides and used these peptides as specific inhibitors to target enzymes/proteins.