Thomas Carell

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Thomas Carell (February 2011)

Thomas Carell (born April 26, 1966 in Herford ) is a German chemist .

Life

Thomas Carell was born in Herford in 1966. He is married and has three children. He studied chemistry from 1985 to 1990 at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster , where he wrote his diploma thesis at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg on the " synthesis and investigation of an electron donor bridged porphyrin ". The dissertation was also carried out at this institute between 1990 and 1993 and he completed it with a thesis entitled “ Model compounds for the investigation of primary processes in photosynthesis: synthesis and properties of an electron acceptor bridged porphyrin dimer ”.

From 1993 to 1995 Thomas Carell was a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge , where he worked on the creation and screening of molecular databases of small molecules. In 1998 he completed his habilitation at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ) on the subject of " Model compounds and model oligonucleotides for the investigation of DNA repair by photolyases ". From 2000 to 2004 he was C4 professor for organic chemistry at the Philipps University in Marburg , and since 2004 he has been C4 professor for this subject at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

From November 1, 2006 to October 31, 2019, Thomas Carell was the spokesman for the Cluster of Excellence "Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich" (CIPSM) and from October 2007 to June 2019 spokesman for the Collaborative Research Center 749 Dynamics and Intermediates of Molecular Transformations .

In 2008 Thomas Carell founded baseclick GmbH together with BASF SE.

In 2019 Thomas Carell was appointed spokesman for the Collaborative Research Center 1309 Chemical Biology of Epigenetic Modifications and was appointed to the Supervisory Board of BASF SE.

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During his academic career as an organic chemist, Thomas Carell worked primarily with porphyrins , i.e. complex ring molecules that also include chlorophyll and heme . From these biologically interesting substances he came to deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), whose repair mechanisms he explained using specific enzymes , the photolyases . This research offers an approach to cancer medicine , and his work on the transfer of electrons is an important basis for photonics .

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SURNAME Carell, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Herford , North Rhine-Westphalia