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Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
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Prof. Dr. Christian Leumann

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Prof. Dr. Christian J. Leumann
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of Bern
Freiestrasse 3
CH-3012 Bern
Switzerland

Phone: +41 31 631 43 55
FAX: +41 31 631 34 22

E-Mail: christian.leumann@dcb.unibe.ch

Web: http://leumann.dcb.unibe.ch/

Secretary

Brigitte Oggier
Phone: +41 31 631 42 21
FAX: +41 31 631 43 99
E-Mail: brigitte.oggier@dcb.unibe.ch

Current Research Interests

Molecular recognition of the nucleic acids in general. Synthesis and characterization of new, backbone and/or base-modified DNA-analogues for the complexation of single and double-stranded RNA and DNA by conventional design and combinatorial methods. Design and synthesis of catalysts for phosphodiester hydrolysis.

Curriculum

  • 1977 - 1981 graduate studies in chemistry, Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich (Switzerland).
  • 1982 - 1986 Ph.D.-thesis "Biomimetic C-methylation reactions on corphin derivatives" at ETH with Prof. A. Eschenmoser. A comparative model study related to the methylation steps in vitamin B12 biosynthesis.
  • 1987-1988 Post-doc with Peter G. Schultz at the Chemistry Department, University of California, Berkeley. Synthesis and characterization of catalytic antibodies.
  • 1988-1993 Oberassistent at the Laboratory of organic chemistry, ETH. Research work concerned with nucleic acid analogues.
  • since 1993 Professor of bioorganic chemistry at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Berne, (Switzerland).
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