Dr. Christian Adam Olsen, PhD

Professor, Drug Design and Pharmacology at University of Copenhagen

Speaker

Christian A. Olsen was born in Copenhagen in 1974. He received his M.Sc. from the Technical University of Denmark in 2000 and his Ph.D. from the Danish University of Pharmaceutical Sciences in 2004. After independently working on the development of novel peptidomimetics, he did his postdoctoral fellowship with Prof. Ghadiri at The Scripps Research Institute. In 2010 he returned to a faculty position at the Technical University of Denmark and in 2014 he accepted his current position as professor at the University of Copenhagen. He is recipient of the Lundbeck Foundation Fellowship (2010), the EFMC award for a young medicinal chemist in academia (2014), and an ERC Consolidator grant in 2016. His research interests include foldamers, HDAC inhibitors and quorum sensing modulators, as well as investigation of protein lysine acylation.