Christian Hertweck
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Christian Hertweck is a German chemist, deputy director and head of the Department of Biomolecular Chemistry at the Leibniz Institute for Natural Products Research and Infection Biology.
Career
Hertweck studied chemistry at the University of Bonn and did his doctorate under Wilhelm Boland at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in 1996-1999. 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 Postdoctoral Researchers (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation), he started his independent research 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 full professor at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Chair of Natural Product Chemistry) and head of the Department of Biomolecular Chemistry at the Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology; in 2008 he became deputy director of the institute.
Area of research
Together with his interdisciplinary team, he works on research projects at the interface between chemistry and biology, focussing on specialized metabolites of bacteria and fungi. The aim of their research is to identify pharmacologically relevant substances and to understand how they are assembled. Genetic methods (genome mining) and are primarily used to discover new active substances (genome mining). To modify the structures of natural substances, his research group uses synthetic and enzymatic methods as well as synthetic biology approaches, in which genes from active substance producers are modified or recombined.[1].
Christian Hertweck has co-authored over 350 publications and articles in scientific journals, several book chapters and numerous patents.[2] In 2015, he was awarded the Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation for his research on bioactive natural products from microorganisms.[1][3].
Honors and Awards
- 1999 Feodor Lynen Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- 2005 Thuringian Research Award (basic research category)
- 2005 Young Scientist Award for Natural Products Research of DECHEMA
- 2005 Science Prize for Life Sciences and Physics of the Beutenberg Campus Jena e.V.
- 2006 Sponsorship Prize of the Dr. Otto Röhm Memorial Foundation
- 2011 NPR Lecture Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry
- 2014 Wilhelm Manchot Research Professorship
- 2015 David Gottlieb Lecture Award
- 2015 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
- 2015 Elected Member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina (since 2015)[4]
- 2020 Inhoffen Medal
- 2021 Ernst Jung Prize
Memberships and Service to Science
- Board member of the Cluster of Excellence "Balance of the Microverse" (since 2018).
- Spokesperson of the Collaborative Research Centre ChemBioSys (SFB 1127) (since 2014).
- Advisory Board of the DECHEMA-Subject Group Low Molecular 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 Committee of the Irsee Natural Products Conference (since 2003)
- Founding member of the Future Biotechnology Forum of DECHEMA (2002)
- Member of the DECHEMA Society for Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology (since 2002)
- Member of the German Chemical Society (GDCh) (since 2001)
References
- ^ a b leibniz-hki.de: Christian Hertweck - Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology e. V. - Hans Knöll Institute (HKI), retrieved 15 February 2017
- ^ orcid.org: [1], retrieved on 9. November 2019
- ^ uni-jena: Leibniz-Preis 2015 für Prof. Dr. Christian Hertweck, retrieved 15 February 2017
- ^ Mitgliedseintrag von Prof. Dr. Christian Hertweck bei der Deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, abgerufen am 11 June 2022.
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Category:Chemist (21st century)
Category:University teacher (Friedrich Schiller University Jena)
Category:Member of the Leopoldina (21st century)
Category:Leibniz Prize Laureate
Category:German
Category:Born 1969