Christian Hertweck
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
Area of research
Hertweck's research focuses on specialized metabolites of bacteria and fungi with the intent 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. 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] He has co-authored over 350 publications and articles in scientific journals.[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]
References
- ^ a b c d leibniz-hki.de: Christian Hertweck – Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology e. V. – Hans Knöll Institute (HKI), retrieved 15 February 2017
- ^ Christian Hertweck publications indexed by Google Scholar
- ^ "Prof. Dr. Christian Hertweck erhält Leibniz-Preis der DFG". LABO (in German). 12 December 2014. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
External links
- Official website
- Schroll, Anna (11 September 2019). "Professur für Naturstoffchemie". University of Jena: Institut für Mikrobiologie (in German). Retrieved 18 November 2022.
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