Helge B. Bode studied chemistry and biology in Göttingen, Germany, and obtained his PhD in organic chemistry from Göttingen University in 2000. After a first Postdoc at the German Research Center for Biotechnology (GBF) in Braunschweig (Germany) from 2001-2002 and a second one at the Stanford University (USA) from 2002-2003 he became an assistant professor (Juniorprofessor) for natural product biotechnology at the Saarland University in Saarbrücken (Germany) from 2005-2006.
From 2006-2010 he was a group leader within the Emmy Noether program of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and since 2008 he is the Merck endowed chair for Molecular Biotechnology at the Goethe-University Frankfurt. His research is centred around all aspects of microbial natural products with a special focus on their natural function and underlying regulation including RNA-based mechanisms.
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