Dr Christian Ottman

Christian Ottmann, Ph.D., is Associate Professor for Molecular Cell and Structural Biology at Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands. He works on small-molecule modulation of Protein-Protein Interactions (PPIs) with a special focus on stabilization of 14-3-3 adapter protein PPIs. He is involved in several early drug discovery projects with the pharmaceutical industry and is coordinator of the FP7 Industry-Academia Partnership and Pathways (IAPP) 14-3-3STABS and the Horizon2020 European Training Network (ETN) TASPPI. Before taking up his current position in Eindhoven he was a group leader at the Chemical Genomics Centre (CGC) of the Max Planck Society in Dortmund, Germany. He obtained his Ph.D. (summa cum laude) in 2003 from the University of Tubingen with Prof. Claudia Oecking. In 2012 he was recipient of the Innovation Award in Medicinal/Pharmaceutical Chemistry of the GDCh/DPhG and in 2013 of the Young Chemical Biology Award of the International Chemical Biology Society (ICBS). He is (co-) author of more than 60 scientific papers and 3 patents.