Christian Hertweck

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Christian Hertweck (born October 1, 1969 in Bonn ) is a German chemist, deputy director and head of the Biomolecular Chemistry department at the Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - Hans Knöll Institute (HKI) and is a university professor for natural product chemistry at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena .

Christian Hertweck

Career

Hertweck studied chemistry at the University of Bonn and received his doctorate from 1996–1999 under Wilhelm Boland at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology . After a research stay (1999–2000) with Heinz G. Floss and Bradley S. Moore at the University of Washington , Seattle , USA, funded by a Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship for Postdocs ( Alexander von Humboldt Foundation ), he started his own career Work as head of a junior research group at the Hans Knöll Institute (2001-2005), which led to a habilitation ( venia legendi ) in organic chemistry at the FSU Jena. Since 2006 he has been a professor at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Chair of Natural Product Chemistry) and Head of the Biomolecular Chemistry Department at the Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology ; In 2008 he became deputy director of the institute.

Work area

Together with an interdisciplinary team, he works on research projects in the interface between chemistry and biology. The focus is on natural substances that are produced by bacteria and fungi. The aim of the research is to identify pharmacologically relevant substances and to understand how they are formed in microorganisms. Genetic methods are primarily used to find new active ingredients (genome mining). In order to modify the structures of natural substances, his working group uses synthetic and enzymatic methods as well as biocombinatorics, in which genes from drug producers are modified or recombined.

Christian Hertweck is co-author of over 300 publications and articles in scientific journals, several book chapters and numerous patents. In 2015 he was awarded the Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation for his research on bioactive natural substances from microorganisms .

Awards

Offices and memberships

  • Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (since 2015)
  • Head of the Cluster of Excellence "Balance of the Microverse" (since 2018)
  • Spokesman of the Collaborative Research Center ChemBioSys (SFB 1127) (since 2014)
  • Advisory board of the DECHEMA specialist group low molecular weight natural products with biological activity (since 2014)
  • Member of the Editorial Board, Bioorganic Chemistry (2013–2018)
  • Editor, Cell Chemical Biology (formerly: Chemistry & Biology) (2012–2017)
  • Member of the Faculty of 1000 (2012-2017)
  • Member of the Editorial Board, Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry (2011–2017)
  • Member of the Editorial Board, Journal of Antibiotics (since 2011)
  • Member of the Editorial Board, ChemBioChem (since 2010)
  • Member of the Editorial Board, Chemistry & Biology (2009–2012)
  • Member of the International Leibniz Research School for Microbial and Biomolecular Interactions (ILRS)
  • Member of the Excellence Graduate School Jena School for Microbial Communication (JSMC) (since 2007)
  • Member of the Association for General and Applied Microbiology (VAAM) (since 2005)
  • Preparatory group for the Irsee Natural Products Conference (since 2003)
  • Founding member of the future forum for biotechnology at DECHEMA (2002)
  • Member of the DECHEMA Society for Chemical Technology and Biotechnology eV (since 2002)
  • Member of the Society of German Chemists (GDCh) (since 2001)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b leibniz-hki.de: Christian Hertweck - Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology e. V. - Hans Knöll Institute (HKI) , accessed on February 15, 2017
  2. ↑ orcid.org: [1] , accessed November 9, 2019
  3. ↑ uni-jena: Leibniz Prize 2015 for Prof. Dr. Christian Hertweck , accessed February 15, 2017
  4. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Christian Hertweck (with picture and CV) at the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina , accessed on June 11, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Hertweck, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist, Deputy Director and Head of the Biomolecular Chemistry Department at the Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology
DATE OF BIRTH 1st October 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn