Professor Dr. Peter H. Seeberger - Vice President of the DFG since 2021
Member of the Executive Committee
Prof. Dr. Peter H. Seeberger
Prof. Dr. Peter H. Seeberger
Education
| Year | Discription |
|---|---|
| 1995 | Ph.D. in Biochemistry University of Colorado at Boulder, USA Thesis advisor: Prof. M.H. Caruthers |
| 1989 | B.S. in Chemistry University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, D |
Experience
| Year | Discription |
|---|---|
| Since 2009 | Director, Department for Biomolecular Systems Max-Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, D |
| Since 2009 | Professor of Chemistry Free University of Berlin, Berlin, D |
| 2019 - 2020 (and 2011 - 2012) | Managing Director Max-Planck Inst. for Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, D |
| Since 2011 | Honorary Professor of Chemistry Potsdam University, Potsdam, D |
| 2003 - 2014 | Affiliate Professor The Burnham Institute, La Jolla, USA |
| 2003 - 2009 | Chair, Laboratory for Organic Chemistry Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, CH |
| 2002 - 2003 | Firmenich Associate Professor of Chemistry (tenured) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA |
| 1998 - 2002 | Assistant Professor of Chemistry Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA |
| 1995 - 1997 | Research Fellow Sloan-Kettering Institute f. Cancer Research, New York; USA Mentor: Prof. S.J. Danishefsky |
Awards and Honors
| Year | Discription |
|---|---|
| 2021 | ACS Award for Affordable Green Chemistry |
| 2020 | Emil-Fischer-Medaille, German Chemical Society |
| 2019 | The Barry Cohen Prize, MedChem Section Israel Ch. Soc. |
| 2019 | Melville L. Wolfrom Award, ACS Carbohydrate Division |
| 2018 | Gusi Peace Prize, Phillipines |
| 2018 | Ernst Hellmut Vits-Prize, Univ. Münster |
| 2017 | Wissenschaftspreis des Stifterverbandes |
| 2015 | Humanity in Science Award |
| 2013 | Member, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences |
| 2013 | C. S. Hamilton Award for Organic Chemistry Univ. Nebraska |
| 2012 | “Honorary Visiting Professor”, Jiangnan University |
| 2012 | Whistler Award, Int. Carb. Organization |
| 2011 | Hans Herloff Inhoffen-Medal, TU Braunschweig |
| 2010 | Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award Bioorg. Med. Chem. |
| 2009 | Claude S. Hudson Award in Carbohydrate Chemistry (ACS) |
| 2009 | Honorary Lifetime Member, Israel Chemical Society |
| 2008 | Karl-Heinz Beckurts Prize |
| 2008 | ERC Advanced Grant |
| 2008 | “The 100 Most Important Swiss 2008” Schweizer Illustrierte |
| 2008 | UCB-Ehrlich Award for Excellence in Medicinal Chemistry |
| 2007 | Yoshimasa Hirata Gold Medal, Nagoya University |
| 2007 | “The 100 Most Important Swiss 2007” Schweizer Illustrierte |
| 2007 | Körber European Science Award |
| 2007 | Havinga Medal, Leiden University |
| 2006 | Astra Zeneca Organic Chemistry Award |
| 2006 | President of 2006, Swiss Academy of Natural Sciences |
| 2005 | European Society for Combinatorial Sciences Award |
| 2005 | Carbohydrate Research Award for Creativity Carboh. Chem. |
| 2004 | Otto-Klung Weberbank Prize for Chemistry |
| 2003 | Horace B. Isbell Award (ACS Carbohydrate Division) |
| 2003 | Arthur C. Cope Young Scholar Award (ACS) |
| 2002 | Merck Academic Development Program Award |
| 2002 | Robert P. Goldberg Grand Prize (MIT 50K Competition) |
| 2002 | Harold E. Edgerton Faculty Achievement Award |
| 2002 | Alfred P. Sloan Research Scholar |
| 2002 | Glaxo-Smith-Kline Research Scholar Award |
| 2000 | CaP CURE Research Award |
| 1999 | CaP CURE Research Award |
| 1999 | Research Corporation “Research Innovation Award” |
| 1999 | Technology Review Top 100 Young Innovator Award |
| 1999 | Edgerly Science Partnership Fund Award |
| 1999 | Mizutani Foundation for Glycoscience Award |
| 1998 | CaP CURE Research Award |
| 1997 | Liebig Fellow |
| 1990 - 1992 | Fulbright Scholar |
| 1987 - 1992 | Bavarian Government Scholar |
Visiting Professorships
| Year | Discription |
|---|---|
| 2021 - 2022 | Newton-Abraham Visiting Professor, Oxford University (UK) |
| 2018 | Distinguished Visiting Professor, IIT Bombay (India) |
| 2015 | 26th George Büchi Visiting Professor in Organic Chemistry, MIT, Cambridge, MA (USA) |
| Since 2012 | Griffith University, Gold Coast (Australia) |
| 2013 | Université Sorbonne: Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (France) |
| 2011 | Singapore National University (Singapore) |
| 2010 | Instit. for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS), Kyoto University, Kyoto (Japan) |
| 2010 | CSIRO Melbourne (Australia) |
| 2010 | Melbourne University (Australia) |
| 2003 - 2006 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA |
| 1998 | Rheinische-Wilhelms University Bonn (Germany) |
Named Lectures
| Year | Discription |
|---|---|
| 2020 | Barluenga Lectureship, Univ. de Oviedo, Spain |
| 2020 | Sunney Chan Lecture, Academia Sinica Taipei, Taiwan |
| 2020 | Henry Kuiivila Lecture, SUNY Albany, NY, USA |
| 2020 | Novartis Lecture, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA |
| 2019 | H.C. Brown Lecture, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, USA |
| 2018 | Andy Derome Lectures, Oxford University, Oxford, UK |
| 2017 | Otto-Warburg-Lecture, University Bayreuth, Germany |
| 2017 | Tony Holý Lecture, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, CR |
| 2016 | Howard Mem. Lectures, Univ. of Sydney and NSW, Australia |
| 2015 | The Hassel Lectures, Univ. of Oslo, Oslo, Norway |
| 2014 | Novartis Lecture, Univ. of Pennsylvan, Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| 2014 | Dean's Disting. Lecture, Temple Univ., Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| 2013 | Csaba Horvath Memorial Lect., ACS-HU, Budapest, Hungary |
| 2013 | Durham Lectures, Durham University, UK |
| 2013 | Scynexis Lecturer, Univ. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA |
| 2013 | C. S. Hamilton Lectureship, Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA |
| 2012 | Abbott-Lilly Lecture, Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA, USA |
| 2011 | Merck Organic Chem. Lect., Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison USA |
| 2011 | Sigma-Aldrich Lecture, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison USA |
| 2011 | Mashelkar Endowment Lecture, Nat. Chem. Lab., Pune, India |
| 2011 | Dillon Steele Lecture, Univ of Queensland, Brisbane, Austr. |
| 2011 | Organic Syntheses Lecture, Wayne State Univ., Detroit, USA |
| 2011 | Hans Herloff Inhoffen Lecture, Braunschweig, Germany |
| 2011 | BBVA Lecture, Bilbao, Spain |
| 2009 | Backer Lecture, Univ. of Groningen, Nederlands |
| 2009 | Jack Fox Presidential Lecture, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY |
| 2008 | Bristol-Meyers-Squibb Lecture, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
| 2008 | Bristol-Meyers-Squibb Lecture, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL |
| 2008 | McRae Lecture, Queens University, CA |
| 2008 | Boehringer Ingelheim Lecture, Universite de Montreal, CA |
| 2008 | Astra Zeneca Lecture, Sheffield University, UK |
| 2007 | Yoshimasa Hirata Memorial Lecture, Nagoya Univ., Japan |
| 2007 | Lemieux Biotechnology Lect., Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, CA |
| 2007 | David Ginsburg Annual Lectureship, Technion, Israel |
| 2005 | Griess Lectures, RSC East Midlands Section, UK |
| 2005 | Amgen Lecture, Stanford University, CA, USA |
| 2004 | Lilly Lecture, Universität Braunschweig, Germany |
| 2002 | Novartis Lecture, Yale University, CT, USA |
| 2002 | Haynes-Morris Lecture, University of Tennessee, TN, USA |
| 2001 | Sigma-Xi Lecture, MIT, MA, USA |
Editorial Work
| Year | Discription |
|---|---|
| Since 2011 | Editor-in-Chief; Beilstein J. of Organic Chemistry |
| Since 2010 | Editorial Board, ACS Chemical Biology |
| Since 2011 | Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Carbohydrate Chemistry |
| Since 2011 | Journal of Flow Chemistry, Editorial Advisory Board |
| Since 2011 | ChemBioChem, Editorial Advisory Board |
| Since 2014 | Synthesis/Synlett, Editorial Advisory Board |
| Since 2015 | Chemical Reviews, Editorial Advisory Board |
| Since 2015 | Chem, Editorial Board |
| Since 2006 | Current Opinion in Chemical Biology, Editorial Advisory Board |
| 2007 - 2018 | Board of Consulting Editors, Bioorg. & Med. Chem. Letters |
| 2007 - 2018 | Board of Consulting Editors, Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry |
| 2004 - 2017 | Adv. Carbohydrate Chem.Biochem., Editorial Advisory Board |
| 2003 - 2010 | Editor, Journal of Carbohydrate Chemistry |
| 2007 - 2010 | Board of Editors, HFSP Journal |
| 2002 - 2005 | Associate Editor, Chemistry & Biology |
| 2001 - 2007 | Carbohydrate Research, Editorial Advisory Board |
| 2002 - 2009 | Current Organic Synthesis, Editorial Advisory Board |
| 2002 - 2009 | Mini Reviews in Organic Chemistry, Editorial Advisory Board |
| 2003 - 2009 | QSAR& Combinatorial Science, Editorial Advisory BoardSA |
| 2005 - 2015 | Journal of Biotechnology, Editorial Advisory Board |
| 2006 - 2009 | Board of Editors, ACS Chemical Biology |
| 2007 - 2009 | Current Chemical Biology, Editorial Advisory Board |
| 2007 - 2009 | The Open Cell and Developmental Biology Journal, Editorial Advisory Board |
| 2007 - 2009 | The Open Medicinal Chemistry Journ, Editorial Advisory Board |
| 2008 - 2011 | Beilstein J. of Organic Chemistry, Editorial Advisory Board |
| 2009 - 2015 | Macromolecular Biosciences, International Advisory Board |
Selected Publications
- Plante, O.J.; Palmacci, E.R.; Seeberger, P.H.; Automated Solid-Phase Synthesis of Oligosaccharides; Science 2001, 291, 1523-1527.
- Schofield, L.; Hewitt, M.C.; Evans, K.; Siomos, M.A.; Seeberger, P.H.; Synthetic GPI as a Candidate Anti-toxic Vaccine in a Model of Malaria; Nature, 2002, 418, 785-789.
- de Paz, J.L.; Noti, C.; Seeberger, P.H.; Microarrays of Synthetic Heparin Oligosaccharides; J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 2766-2767
- Levesque, F.; Seeberger, P.H.; Continuous flow synthesis of the antimalarial drug artemisinin; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012, 51, 1706-1709.
- Hofmann, J.; Hahm, H.S.; Seeberger, P.H.; Pagel, K.; Identification of Carbohydrate Anomers Using Ion Mobility-Mass Spectrometry; Nature 2015, 526, 241-244.
- Hahm, H.S.; Schlegel, M.K.; Hurevich, M.; Eller, S.; Schuhmacher, F.; Hofmann, J.; Pagel, K.; Seeberger, P.H.; Automated Glycan Assembly Using the Glyconeer 2.1® Synthesizer; Proc Nat Acad Sci USA, 2017, 114, E3385-E3389
- Schumann, B.; Hahm, H.S.; Parameswarappa, S.G.; Reppe, K.; Wahlbrink, A.; Govindan, S.; Kaplonek, P.; Pirofski, L.-a.; Witzenrath, M.; Anish, C.; Pereira, C.L.; Seeberger, P.H.; A Semisynthetic Streptococcus pneumoniae Serotype 8 Glycoconjugate Vaccine Candidate; Science Transl. Med. 2017, 9, eaaf5347
- Chatterjee, S.; Guidi, M.; Seeberger, P.H.; Gilmore, K.; Automated Radial Synthesis of Complex Organic Molecules; Nature 2020, 579, 379–384.
- Wu, X. Delbianco, M.; Anggara, K.; Michnowicz, T.; Pardo-Vargas, A.; Bharate, P.; Sen, S.; Pristl, M.; Rauschenbach, S.; Schlickum, U.; Abb, S.; Seeberger, P.H.; Kern, K.; Imaging Single Glycans; Nature 2020, 582, 375–378.
- Zhu, Y.; Delbianco, M.; Seeberger, P.H.; Automated Assembly of Starch and Glycogen Polysaccharides; J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2021, 143, in press.
- Further publications by Prof. Dr. Peter H. Seeberge