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Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Maison

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Photo: Dr. Thomas Lemcke

Research Group Leader

RG Maison

Address

University of Hamburg
Department of Chemistry
Institute of Pharmacy
Research Group Maison
Bundesstrasse 45
20146 Hamburg

Office

PHA
Room: 503

Contact

Tel: +49 40 42838-3497
ORCID: 0000-0003-2793-5722

Key aspects of activity

  • Antifouling
  • Surfaces and contact biocides
  • Chemical modeling of biofilms
  • Tumor targeting
  • Chelators for MRT, PET and SPECT

Secretary's office

Antje Wagner
Administrative Assistant
Institute of Pharmacy
Research Group Maison
Bundesstrasse 45
20146 Hamburg
Room: 502
Tel: +49 40 2395-23491


Education and scientific career

  • 1978-1984 Primary school Elsfleth
  • 1984-1991 Grammar school Brake (1991: Abitur)
  • 1991-1997 Studies of Chemistry at the University of Oldenburg
  • 1994 Intermediate diploma
  • 1997 Diploma (Organic Chemistry): New Aspects in the Chemistry of Heterocyclic Imines
  • 1997-2000 Ph.D., Organic Chemistry, University of Oldenburg, Germany; Thesis title: Efficient Synthesis of Amino acid Derivatives, Useful for the Preparation of Peptide Nucleic Acids, Unnatural Peptides and Peptide Mimetics, Advisor: Professor Jürgen Martens
  • 2000-2001 Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT Department of Chemistry, Prof. Daniel S. Kemp · Investigations towards the mechanism of protein folding· Synthesis of an on-resin-tunable N-terminal a-Helix template
  • 2001-2006 Habilitand (German equivalent to Assistant Professor) at the Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Hamburg
  • 2006-2011 Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry at Justus-Liebig-University Giessen
  • since September 2011 Full Professor of Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry at the Universität Hamburg

Honours and awards

  • 2002 Thieme Journal Prize
  • Dec 2003 Support for innovative teaching from the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie for an integrated lab course
  • Feb-Apr 2005 Guest professor at University of Toronto (funded by Merck, Prof. Mark Lautens)
  • May 2005 Call for an Associate Professorship at the Norwegian Technical University Trondheim (NTNU); rejected
  • Jan 2006 Call for an Associate Professorship (W2) at the Justus-Liebig-University Giessen (Germany)
  • May 2006 Call for a group leader position at the European Institute of Chemical Biology, Bordeaux; rejected
  • Dec 2006 Call for the Chair of Organic Chemistry at HW-University Edinburgh; rejected

Memberships

  • since 1998 German Chemical Society
  • 2003 Organising committee of the ''12th Young Scientists Meeting for Bioorganic Chemistry''
  • 2004 Organising committee of the ''13th Young Scientists Meeting for Bioorganic Chemistry''
  • since 2004 Member of the American Chemical Society
  • since 2004 Member of the European Peptide Society