Prof. Dr. Rob M.J. Liskamp

Rob Liskamp studied chemistry and did his Ph.D. Bio-organic Chemistry at the University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands (1982) working with Harry Ottenheijm. Post-doctoral research (1983-1986) was carried out in the group of I. Bernard Weinstein in The Institute of Cancer Research and in the group of W. Clark Still, Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York. In 1986 he moved to the University of Leiden. In 1991 he was a visiting professor at the University of California in Los Angeles in the group of François Diederich. In 1994 he became associate professor at Utrecht University and in 1996 professor of molecular medicinal chemistry and chairman of the department of medicinal chemistry. He has a joint appointment at the faculties of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Chemistry. His research interests include biologically active modified peptides and peptidomimetics, combinatorial chemistry, dendrimers, peptide folding, molecular recognition and synthetic receptors.