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Anna Hirsch
Portrait photo of Prof. Dr. Anna K. H. Hirsch
Anna K. H. Hirsch
Born1982 (age 41–42)
OccupationProfessor of Medicinal Chemistry
TitleProfessor
Academic background
Alma materETH Zurich
ThesisA Novel Approach towards Antimalarials: Design and Synthesis of Inhibitors of the Kinase IspE (2008)
Doctoral advisorFrançois Diederich
Academic work
DisciplineMedicinal Chemist
InstitutionsSaarland University
Websitehttps://www.helmholtz-hips.de/en/research/teams/team/drug-design-and-optimisation/

Anna Katharina Herta Hirsch (born 1982 in Trier) is a German-Luxembourg chemist and professor of medicinal chemistry at Saarland University. Since 2017, she has headed the Department of Drug Design and Optimization at the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS).[1]

Her team focuses on targeted rational drug design to regulate enzymes, transporters, and regulators in bacterial, parasitic and viral pathogens.[1]

Career and research

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Hirsch studied natural sciences at the University of Cambridge and completed a year of study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For her master's thesis, Hirsch conducted research in the team of Steven V. Ley at the University of Cambridge.[2]

She completed her doctoral thesis in the research group of François Diederich at ETH Zurich. Here Hirsch worked on structure-based de novo design and on the synthesis of anti-infectives.[3]

She then moved as an HFSP postdoc to the group of Jean-Marie Lehn at the Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie Supramoléculaires (ISIS) in Strasbourg.[2]

In 2010, Hirsch accepted a position as assistant professor at the Stratingh Institute for Chemistry at the University of Groningen, where she was appointed professor in 2015.[2]

In addition to her work as department head at HIPS, she has been a professor of pharmacy at Saarland University since 2017.[4]

Honors and awards

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2011 Elected member of the Institut Grand-Ducal: Section des Sciences, Luxembourg[5]
2012 – 2014 Appointment as Global Shaper of the Netherlands (World Economic Forum)
2014 Gratama Science Prize (€25,000)[6]
2016 SCT-Servier Award „Prix à l’Encouragement à la Recherche en Chimie Thérapeutique“ together with Dr. M. Montes[7]
2017 Innovation Award in Medicinal/Pharmaceutical Chemistry, GDCh & DPhG[8]
2018 ERC Starting Grant "Identification and optimisation of novel anti-infective agents using multiple hit-identification strategies"[9]
2019 European Federation for Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology (EFMC) Award for a Young Medicinal Chemist in Academia (Second place)[10][11]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Drug Design and Optimisation". Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland. Retrieved 2023-01-06.
  2. ^ a b c "Anna K. H. Hirsch". Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research. Retrieved 2023-01-06.
  3. ^ Hirsch, Anna Katharina Herta (2008). A novel approach towards antimalarials: design and synthesis of inhibitors of the kinase IspE (Doctoral Thesis thesis). ETH Zurich. doi:10.3929/ethz-a-005664687.
  4. ^ "Prof. Dr. Anna Hirsch | Route2025". Route2025. Retrieved 2023-01-06.
  5. ^ "Membres". Institut Grand-Ducal Section des sciences. Retrieved 2023-01-06.
  6. ^ "Winners". University of Groningen. 2013-07-16. Retrieved 2023-01-06.
  7. ^ "SCT-Servier Prize in medicinal chemistry". University of Groningen. Retrieved 2023-01-06.
  8. ^ "Innovation Award | Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker e.V." German Chemical Society. Retrieved 2023-01-06.
  9. ^ "ERC Starting Grant für Anna Hirsch". Wiley Analytical Science. 2018-02-20. Retrieved 2023-01-06.
  10. ^ "EFMC Prize for a Young Medicinal Chemist or Chemical Biologist in Academia" (PDF). European Federation for Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology. Retrieved 2023-01-06.
  11. ^ Nonnenmacher, Yannic (2019-09-09). "Anna Hirsch nominated for Young Chemist Award". Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS). Retrieved 2023-01-06.
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