Christian P. R. Hackenberger PhD

Christian PR Hackenberger completed his graduate studies at the universities of Freiburg and UW Madison and his doctoral studies in 2003 at the RWTH Aachen. After his postdoctoral stay at MIT he started his own lab at the Freie Universitat Berlin in 2005. In 2012, he accepted a call as the Leibniz-Humboldt Professor for Chemical Biology to the Leibniz-Research Institute for Molecular Pharmacology and the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. His lab studies the biology function and pharmacological potency of naturally and unnaturally modified proteins as well as antibody-conjugates, in particular by developing new chemoselective and bioorthogonal reactions and novel concepts in functional protein synthesis and delivery.