Dirk Trauner

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Dirk Trauner (born April 17, 1967 in Linz ) is an Austrian chemist .

Life

From 1986 to 1991 Trauner studied biology and biochemistry at the University of Vienna . From 1992 to 1995 he studied chemistry at the Free University of Berlin and completed his diploma thesis with Johann Mulzer , whom he followed as an assistant to Frankfurt and Vienna. In 1997 he completed his doctoral thesis at the University of Vienna with Mulzer with summa cum laude. From 1998 to 2000 he was a postdoc at the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research in New York City with SJ Danishefsky. From 2000 to 2006 he was Assistant Professor and from 2006 to 2010 Associate Professor at the University of Berkeley in California and from 2005 to 2008 at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory . From 2008 to 2017 he was Professor of Chemical Biology and Genetics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Since 2017 he has held the Janice Cutler Chair in Chemistry at New York University .

Trauner is known for his work on natural product synthesis and photopharmacology. He is of the opinion that many biologically active substances, even with a small molar mass, have not yet been discovered and his research group is concerned with the search for these and their total synthesis . He is considered a pioneer in the field of photopharmacology, the control of the activity of biologically active substances by light, with possible applications in cancer therapy and in ophthalmology.

In 2017 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Awards (selection)

  • 2004 Amgen Young Investigator Award
  • 2005 Novartis Young Investigator Award
  • 2008 Roche Excellence in Chemistry Award
  • 2013 Kitasato Microbial Chemistry Medal
  • 2016 Emil Fischer Medal
  • 2016 Otto Bayer Prize

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member entry of Dirk Trauner at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on May 16, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Trauner, Dirk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian chemist
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz