Morten
Meldal (age 52, Danish), Senior scientist at
Carlsberg Laboratory and Adj. Professor at DTU. Director of the SPOCC
Centre. He has been the leader of the synthesis group at the Carlsberg
Laboratory since 1988 and was in 1996 appointed as Adj. Professor at
the Technical University of Denmark. The synthesis group comprises of
on average 10 scientific and 4 technical staff members. He has a
degree in engineering and a technical Ph.D. degree in the synthetic
chemistry of oligosaccharides. From 1983-1988 he worked as independent
research associate in organic chemistry at The Technical University of
Denmark and University of Copenhagen. In 1985-1986 he was a
postdoctoral research associate at Medical Research Council Center,
Laboratory of Molecular Biology, England. He was the 1996 winner of
the NKT Research Award for Chemistry, the recipient of the 1996
Leonidas Zerwas Award from the European Peptide Society and in 1997 he
received the Ellen and Niels Bjerrum Gold Medal in chemistry. The
group has published more than 250 publications and reviews in
international journals and filed 20 patents describing work in many
different areas of organic and bioorganic chemistry
AWARDS, HONORS & PROFESSIONAL
AFFILIATIONS
1988 Kirstine Meyers Award, Kirstine Meyers
Foundation, Denmark.
1990 The Danish Chemistry Award, The Danish
Society of Chemistry, Denmark
1992 Research Award from the EU-Science Program,
Belgium
1992 NATO Travel Award
1995 Research Award from the Mitzutani
Foundation, Japan
1996 The NKT-Award, NKT and The Chemical Society
of Denmark
1996 The Leonidas Zervas Award of the European
Peptide Society
1997 The Niels Bjerrum Gold Medal in Chemistry
1996 Research Award from the EU-INCO-DC program
1997 Research Award from the Danish National
Research Foundation
1997 Research Award from the Danish Cancer
Society
1999 Bjerrum-Brønsted-Lang Lecture, The Royal
Danish Academy of Sciences
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Co-founder and Chairman of the European
Society of Combinatorial Sciences (ESCS)
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Member Danish National Academy (DNA)
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Member of the Editorial Board of several
international journals including J. Combinatorial Chemistry
and ChemBioChem.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
His research interests are
within combinatorial methods in peptide and glycopeptide synthesis,
methodology and automation, polymer chemistry, organic synthesis,
enzymology and enzyme inhibition, glycobiology and molecular
immunology, molecular libraries of mimics, and nanoscale structure
analysis by MS and MAS-NMR.
PUBLICATIONS
He has published more than 250
publications and reviews in international journals and filed 16
patents in bio-organic and polymer chemistry.
