Prof. Dr. Peter Wipf

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsOrganic Molecular Chemistry,Pharmacy
KeywordsComputational Chemistry, Organometallics, Medicinal Chemistry, Heterocyclic Chemistry, Natural Products Total Synthesis

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityPittsburgh
InstitutionUniversity of Pittsburgh
InstituteDepartment of Chemistry
Homepagehttp://ccc.chem.pitt.edu/wipf/index.html

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Carsten BolmInstitut für Organische Chemie (IOC), Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH), Aachen
Start of initial sponsorship01/10/2015

Programme(s)

2014Humboldt Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Professor Wipf is well known internationally for his discoveries of innovative methods in heterocyclic and organometallic chemistry and the development of novel strategies to complex natural and unnatural target molecules. Professor Wipf has had extraordinary success in drug development. One of the compounds he designed and synthesized is now in Phase II clinical studies in cancer patients in the United States and Canada. In Germany, he intends to investigate new synthetic methods for accelerated drug discovery, in particular in the field of neurodegeneration.