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Hans Rudolf Pfaendler

Department of Chemistry

Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich

Germany

Biography

Hans Rudolf Pfaendler received his PhD in 1971 in Basel under Professor Cyril A. Grob for the study of organic reaction mechanisms. His knowledge in practical microbiology, which Pfaendler acquired during repeated part-time jobs at the Cantonal Food Control. also stems from this period. He then continued his studies on reaction mechanisms as a postdoctoral fellow at the Shionogi Research Laboratory, Osaka, with Dr. Hiroshi Tanida.  1972, he started working for seven years at the Woodward Research Institute in Basel under Harvard professor and Nobel laureate R. B. Woodward. During this work, the first totally synthetic beta-lactam antibiotic was prepared and named penem, due to its combined structural elements from penicillin (penam) and cephalosporin (cephem). After the untimely death of R. B. Woodward in 1979, Pfaendler joined the pharmaceutical research department of CIBA-GEIGY AG in Basel. In 1982, he received an appointment as professor at the University of Munich. During many years of giving the traditional Experimental Lecture in Organic Chemistry, which goes back to Justus-von-Liebig, he gained a thorough overview of the life sciences. Pfaendler has remained true to his field of research: the chemical synthesis of biologically active compounds. This includes the stable oxapenems as potent beta-lactamase inhibitors. The most recent research in the field of diagnostics was carried out in collaboration with Dr. Schmidt, who as a senior physician has many years of experience in microbiology.  Fluorescent carbapenems were first prepared by Dr. Gregor Golz as part of his doctoral thesis at Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich.

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