Frank Schulz at Technical University Dortmund
A Professorship of Bioorganic Chemistry was established at the Technical University (TU) Dortmund in the fall semester. Frank Schulz was appointed the Beilstein Foundation Professor. The focus of Prof. Schulz’s research is the search for new antibiotics and anticancer substances from natural sources.
The Beilstein Professorship is endowed with 650,000 Euro over three years. This resource will finance the work of a group of doctoral students and Ph. D. scientists as well as assist in the laboratory education of students in the areas of organic and biochemistry.
Frank Schulz studied chemistry at the Universities of Bochum, Germany, and Michigan, USA. Following this, he wrote his doctoral thesis at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung (Max Planck Institute for Coal Research), Germany. After a period of research at the University of Cambridge, he became the leader of a group at the MPI Dortmund, financed by the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie (Fonds of the Chemical Industry).
A professorship for chem- and bioinformatics was held by Gisbert Schneider from April 2002 to March 2007 at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, Germany, at the Institute of Organic Chemistry und Chemical Biology. Prof. Schneider became full professor at the ETH Zürich, Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, in 2010.
