Dr. Mira Kanzelberger
Senior Research Scientist of Chemistry, Engineering, and Physics
Dr. Mira Kanzelberger serves as a Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Chemistry, Engineering, and Physics at Franciscan University of Steubenville. Collaborating with Dr. Jeffrey Rohde, she has been conducting research in synthetic organic chemistry since 2015 to further FISH and FIWH initiatives. The research projects fall in the general area of Medicinal Chemistry, with an emphasis on neglected diseases and the synthesis of small molecules of interest to the pharmaceutical industry, and provide excellent opportunities for interested students to gain hands-on research experience in organic synthesis. She has also been teaching primarily organic chemistry lab courses.
Before coming to Franciscan, she worked in medicinal chemistry in the pharmaceutical industry and taught chemistry at Shoreline Community College in Shoreline, WA. She holds a Ph.D. in Organometallic Chemistry from Rutgers University and a B.S. in Chemistry from the California Institute of Technology.
