経歴

1986-1990 Pharmacy studies at Bonn University

1990-1991 Pharmaziepraktikum

1991 Approbation as pharmacist

1991-1994 Promotion (Ph.D.) at the Department of Pharmaceutical Biology at Bonn University (Workgroup of Prof. E. Leistner) about the menachinon and enterobactin biosynthesis in Escherichia coli

1995 Post-doc at the same department, recognition as Fachapotheker for Pharmaceutical Analytics

1996-1997 Research scholarship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (2 years) at the University of Washington, Department of Chemistry in Seattle, USA (Group of Prof. H.G. Floss): Molecular investigations into the biosynthesis of antibiotics in actinomycetes (Rifamycin)

1998-2003 Junior group leader at the Gesellschaft für Biotechnologische Forschung in Braunschweig (Germany), at the same time research assistant at the Technical University Braunschweig, Department of Pharmaceutical Biology (Workgroup Prof. T. Hartmann). Topic: Genome-based approaches to the analysis of natural product formation and their regulation in myxobacteria

2000 Habilitation: “Molecular biology of the biosynthesis of antibiotics in actinomycetes and myxobacteria,” Lehrbefugnis for “Microbiology and Pharmaceutical Biology”

2001 Phönix-Pharmacy Research Award 2001

2002 DECHEMA award for natural products research ; calling to the University of Greifswald “Pharmaceutical Biotechnology”

2003 BioFuture Award of the Federal Ministry for Education and Research,

calling to the University of Halle “Pharmaceutical Molecular Biology”

calling to Saarland University “Pharmaceutical Biotechnology”, since October Professor of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology at Saarland University

2004 Decline of a calling to TU Braunschweig “Pharmaceutical Biology”

2007 Phönix-Pharmacy Research Award 2007

2008- Chairman to the DECHEMA board “Low molecular natural products with biological activity”

2009- Head of the newly established Helmholtz-Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland, Saarbrücken/Germany

2010 DECHEMA-Prize 2010 of the Max-Buchner-research foundation

研究概要

粘液細菌(myxobacteria)や放線菌(actinomycetes)の二次代謝産物の生合成、異種発現による物質生産などの研究を行っている。

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40人を超える大きな研究室であり、毎年20報近く論文を出しています。