Salam Al-Karadaghi

Professor

Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology

Phone: +46 46 222 4512
Fax: +46 46 222 4116

E-mail: Salam.Al-Karadaghi@biochemistry.lu.se 

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Group members

Mostafa Fekry Abdalkhalik, PhD Student
Eva-Christina Ahlgren, PhD Student  
Janina Sprenger, PhD Student
Christopher Söderberg, PhD Student

Research

• Structure, assembly and function of frataxin oligomers 
• The terminal reaction in heme biosynthesis: ferrochelatase
• Chlorophyll and vitamin B12 synthesis: magnesium and cobalt chelatase
• Enzyme inhibitors and structure-aided drug design

Teaching

• Educational site in structural bioinformatics and protein crystallography: http://www.proteinstructures.com
• KEMM15: Structural Bioinformatics (Strukturbioinformatik)
  

More information

• Publications
• Co-founder of SARomics Biostructures - structural biology and contract drug discovery services provider
• Coordinator of Eurostars project KINOMED, a European kinase drug discovery partnership

Former PhD students

1- David Lecerof, May 2002 

2- Michel Fodje, June 2003

3- Tobias Karlberg, May 2006

4- Mathias Norrman, February 2007

5- Ulrika Schagerlöf, May 2007 

6- Veronica Tamu Dufe, April 2007

7- Joakim Lundqvist, October 2007

Former members

Sreekanth Rajan, Stepan Shipovskov, Greer Wilson