Tetrahedron Symposium Speaker Biography

Herbert Waldmann

Prof. Dr. Waldmann studied chemistry at the University of Mainz and received his Ph.D. in organic chemistry in 1985 under the guidance of Professor Kunz. After a postdoctoral appointment with Professor George Whitesides at Harvard University, Dr. Waldmann completed his habilitation at the University of Mainz in 1991. In 1991 he was appointed as professor of organic chemistry at the University of Bonn, then in 1993 was appointed to full professor of organic chemistry at the University of Karlsruhe. In 1999 he was appointed as Director of the Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Physiology Dortmund, and Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Dortmund. Dr. Waldmann’s research interests lie in protein domain and natural product structure with work on the syntheses of signal transduction modulators and the syntheses of natural product derived compound libraries, the development of solid phase synthesis methods-traceless linkers, and the synthesis and biological evaluation of lipidated peptides and proteins with work on Ras peptides and Ras proteins and the development of Ras activators and inhibitors of the Ras-Raf interaction. Professor Waldmann has received many awards and honors, including the 2001 Otto Bayer Award, the 2003 Max Bergmann Medal and the 2006 GSK Award on Chemical Biology, he is a Member of „Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, Halle/Saale“ and since 2005 he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.