Herbert Waldmann

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Herbert Waldmann, born in 1957, received his Dr. rer. nat. in 1985 (Universit�t Mainz, H. Kunz). After postdoctoral studies (1985-1986, Harvard University, George Whitesides) and habilitation (1991, Universit�t Mainz) he accepted a professorship at the Universit�t Bonn in 1991. In 1993 he moved to the Universit�t Karlsruhe as Full Professor of Organic Chemistry. In 1999 he was appointed as Director at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany (Department of Chemical Biology) and as Full Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Dortmund. Herbert Waldmann has been the recipient of the Friedrich Weygand Award for the advancement of peptide chemistry, of the Carl Duisberg Award of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, the Otto-Bayer-Award and the Steinhofer Award of the Steinhofer Foundation. His current research interests include bioorganic chemistry and natural product synthesis as well as biocatalysis, stereoselective synthesis and combinatorial chemistry. A major focus of the research activities is on the combination of organic chemistry, biophysics and biology for the synthesis and biological evaluation of peptide and protein conjugates that are involved in biological signal transduction processes. More recently syntheses of natural products and natural-product-derived compound libraries on polymeric supports have been investigated by the Waldmann group.