Speakers
Prof. Dr. Danijel Kikelj
Danijel Kikelj is Professor Emeritus of medicinal chemistry at the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He graduated in pharmacy from the University of Ljubljana in 1978, where he also earned a master of science degree in 1983. He obtained his doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) in heterocyclic pharmaceutical chemistry from the University of Heidelberg, Germany, in 1988 under the mentorship of Professor Richard Neidlein. From 1991 to 1992, he served as a C-3 professor of pharmaceutical chemistry at the University of Heidelberg. From 2000 until his retirement in 2022, he was a full professor of medicinal chemistry and head of the research programme in Medicinal Chemistry at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Ljubljana. The main areas of his research have been medicinal chemistry, peptidomimetics, muramyl dipeptide-based immunomodulatory compounds, structure-based design of dual antithrombotic compounds, inhibitors of Mur enzymes involved in peptidoglycan biosynthesis, pharmaceutical leads based on marine bioactive compounds, and, most recently, the discovery of inhibitors of bacterial topoisomerases with activity against Gram-negative bacteria. He was one of the founders of the Paul Ehrlich MedChem Euro-PhD Network, organized the 2nd Network meeting at the University of Ljubljana in 2012, and served as the Network’s coordinator from 2012 to 2015.
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