Principal Investigator

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Jens Meiler

Full Professor of Chemistry and Pharmacology

 

jens.meiler@vanderbilt.edu

 

Center for Structural Biology
465 21st Ave South
BIOSCI/MRBIII, Room 5144B
Nashville, TN 37232-8725 USA
Phone : +1 615 936 5662
Fax : +1 615 936 2211

Education
University of Leipzig B.S. 1995
Chemistry
University of Frankfurt Ph.D. 2001 Structural Biology
University of Washington Post-Doctoral 2001-2004
Structural Biology
 Professional Experience
2020-present Professor and Director, Institute for Drug Discovery, Departments of Chemistry and Computer Science Leipzig University Medical School
2020-present Distinguished Research Professor of Chemistry, Pharmacology, and Biomedical Informatics Vanderbilt University
2016-2019 Full Professor of Chemistry, Pharmacology, and Biomedical Informatics Vanderbilt University
2011-2016 Associate Professor of Chemistry, Pharmacology, and Biomedical Informatics Vanderbilt University
2005-2011 Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Pharmacology, and Biomedical Informatics
Vanderbilt University
2001-2005 Postdoctoral Fellowship with David Baker University of Washington
1998-2001 Ph.D. Studies with Christian Griesinger University of Frankfurt
 Awards & Honorary Lectures
2019 Alexander von Humboldt Professorship
2017 Elected member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences
2015 Vanderbilt University Chancellor Faculty Fellow
2015 Organizer of International Conference “Hybrid Methods in Structural Biology” in Tahoe City, California
2014 Organizer of International Symposium “Biomolecular Structure, Dynamics, and Function: Membrane Proteins” in Nashville Tennessee with 150 participants
2014 Vanderbilt Institute for Chemical Biology Prize for Highly Cited Article
2007 Keynote lecture at the Tennessee Structural Biology Meeting
2005-2014 Seven Articles recommended by Faculty of 1000
2002-2005 Human Frontier Science Program postdoctoral fellowship
1998-2001 Kekulé doctoral scholarship of the fond of the German chemical industry association
1994-1998 German National Merit Foundation scholarship