Manfred Jung,
Chemical Epigenetics Group Leader
Manfred Jung did his PhD on the synthesis of retinoids at the University of Marburg in 1993. From 1993 to 1994 he did a postdoc with T. Durst (University of Ottawa, Canada). From 1994 to 2003 he was a group leader at the University of Münster and obtained his habilitation in Pharmaceutical Chemistry in 2000. Since 2003 he is a Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of Freiburg. In 2010 he received an offer for a full professorship to the University of Mainz that he declined and he is a Full Professor in Freiburg since 2011. In 2011/12 he was appointed as Fellow at the Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies (FRIAS). The topic of his research is Chemical Epigenetics with a major focus on histone modifying enzymes. His group is working on inhibitor synthesis, assay development and screening for inhibitors of reversible histone acetylation and methylation.
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