Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Maison
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
Key aspects of activity
- Antifouling
- Surfaces and contact biocides
- Chemical modeling of biofilms
- Tumor targeting
- Chelators for MRT, PET and SPECT
Secretary's office
Administrative Assistant
Institute of Pharmacy
Research Group Maison
Bundesstrasse 45
20146 Hamburg
Room: 502
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
