Frank J. Dekker PhD

Frank J. Dekker was born in The Netherlands, in 1977. He received his Ph.D. in Medicinal Chemistry from Utrecht University, the Netherlands in 2004. Subsequently, he moved to the Max-Planck Institute for molecular physiology in Dortmund, Germany for postdoctoral research. In 2007, he moved to the University of Groningen, The Netherlands as an assistant professor. Since 2012 he has been promoted to associate professor at the same university and is now part of the department Chemical and Pharmaceutical Biology. His research has been funded by a VIDI grant for the Netherlands Organisation of scientific research and by an ERC starting investigator grant from the European Union, which are both prestigious personal grants His current research interests are Medicinal Chemistry, Enzyme inhibition, Pharmacology, Epigenetics, Lipid signaling, and Inflammation.