Dorothea Fiedler is a chemical biologist and also the first female director of the

Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie The Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP) is a research institute in the Leibniz Association, focussing on proteins as basic structures of cellular organisms. It is one of the large number of research institutions based ...

(Leibniz Research Institute for Molecular Pharmacology, FMP) in

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Early life and education

Fiedler grew up in Hamburg. She studied inorganic chemistry at the University of Würzburg, then carried out doctorate research on

organometallic chemistry Organometallic chemistry is the study of organometallic compounds, chemical compounds containing at least one chemical bond between a carbon atom of an organic molecule and a metal, including alkali, alkaline earth, and transition metals, and so ...

at the University of California at Berkeley.

Research and career

Although her PhD research focussed on organometallic chemistry including host-guest systems and applications to catalysis, Fiedler became interested in cellular signal transduction pathways during her postdoctoral research at the University of California, San Francisco. She started her independent career as an assistant professor at Princeton University in 2010. Her research focuses on the synthesis and signalling roles of inositol phosphates, in particular, those with a pyrophosphate functionality, which has relevance to cellular signalling and cancer biology. In 2015, Fiedler became the director of the

as well as a professor of chemistry at the Humboldt University of Berlin. She continues developing her research focus on the synthesis and signalling roles of protein modifications involving pyrophosphates, as well as building collaborations on biological chemistry and catalysis.

Funding, service, and awards

Fiedler has received a New Innovator Award totalling over $2 million from the NIH in 2013. She also received funding from the Sidney Kimmel Foundation for Cancer Research and the Rita Allen Foundation. 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. Fiedler is an invited speaker at the

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conference on

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2016 and at the International Symposium on Bioorganic Chemistry in 2017. 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.

References

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