Dr. Koji Uwai

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsPharmacy,Organic Molecular Chemistry,Biochemistry
Keywordsstructure-activity relationships, protein aggregation, demantia, alzheimer's disease

Current contact address

CountryJapan
CityMuroran
InstitutionMuroran Institute of Technology
InstituteDepartment of Applied Chemistry

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Herbert WaldmannAbteilung Chemische Biologie, Max-Planck-Institut für molekulare Physiologie, Dortmund
Start of initial sponsorship01/05/2001

Programme(s)

2001Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2003Martin Völkert, Koji Uwai, Andreas Tebbe, Boriana Popkirova, Melanie Wagner, Jürgen Kuhlmann, Herbert Waldmann: Synthesis and Biological Activity of Photoactivatable N-Ras Peptides and Proteins. In: J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2003, 12749-12758
2002Jürgen Kuhlmann, Andreas Tebbe, Martin Völkert, Melanie Wagner, Koji Uwai, Herbert Waldmann: Photoactivatable Synthetic Ras Proteins: 'Baits' for the Identification of Plasma-Membrane-Bound Binding Partners of Ras. In: Angew. Chem. Int. Ed, 2002, 2546-2550