Dorothea Fiedler
German chemical biologist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
German chemical biologist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dorothea Fiedler is a chemical biologist and also the first female director of the Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (Leibniz Research Institute for Molecular Pharmacology, FMP) in Berlin, Germany.
Dorothea Fiedler | |
|---|---|
Prof. Dr. Dorothea Fiedler | |
| Alma mater | University of Würzburg (Diplom 2001) University of California at Berkeley (PhD 2005) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Princeton University, Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie |
| Doctoral advisors | Kenneth N. Raymond, Robert G. Bergman |
| Other academic advisors | Kevan M. Shokat |
Fiedler grew up in Hamburg.[1] She studied inorganic chemistry at the University of Würzburg,[2] then carried out doctorate research on organometallic chemistry at the University of California at Berkeley.[1][3]
Although her PhD research focussed on organometallic chemistry[4][5] including host-guest systems and applications to catalysis,[6][7] Fiedler became interested in cellular signal transduction pathways during her postdoctoral research at the University of California, San Francisco.[1][8] She started her independent career as an assistant professor at Princeton University in 2010.[9] Her research focuses on the synthesis and signalling roles of inositol phosphates,[10] in particular, those with a pyrophosphate functionality,[11][12][13][14] which has relevance to cellular signalling and cancer biology.[15][16]
In 2015, Fiedler became the director of the Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie as well as a professor of chemistry at the Humboldt University of Berlin.[17] She continues developing her research focus on the synthesis and signalling roles of protein modifications involving pyrophosphates,[18][19] as well as building collaborations on biological chemistry and catalysis.[20]
Fiedler has received a New Innovator Award totalling over $2 million from the NIH in 2013.[21] She also received funding from the Sidney Kimmel Foundation for Cancer Research[22][23] and the Rita Allen Foundation.[24] During her postdoctoral research, she received the Ernst Schering Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, was on the Fastrack Program of the Robert Bosch Foundation, and obtained an NIH Pathway to Independence Award.[25]
Fiedler is an invited speaker at the EMBO conference on Chemical Biology 2016[26] and at the International Symposium on Bioorganic Chemistry in 2017.[27]
Fiedler is one of the local organizers of the 42nd National Organic Chemistry Symposium by the organic division of the American Chemical Society in 2011.[28]
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