APEXChemistry
About
Ivan Huc joined the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (Germany) in 2017 as full Professor and head of the chair of chemical biology for drug research. He obtained his doctorate from the University of Paris VI in 1994 for work performed jointly at Ecole Normale Supérieure (France) and MIT (USA). He subsequently worked as a postdoctoral researcher and then as CNRS researcher at the University of Strasbourg until 1998, when he was appointed group leader at the European Institute of Chemistry and Biology at the University of Bordeaux. His group focuses on the design, synthesis, and characterization of aromatic foldamers – synthetic molecules that fold – and their applications including pharmacological aspects.