Manfred Jung

Biography

Manfred Jung studied pharmacy in Marburg and was promoted there in 1993 to Prof. W. Hanefeld in Pharmaceutical Chemistry. From 1993-94 he worked with a DFG scholarship as postdoctoral student in the group of Prof. T. Durst (Department of Chemistry, University of Ottawa). From 1994 onwards, he worked as a working group leader at the Institute for Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of Münster. During this time he was awarded a two-year postdoctoral fellowship from the German Pharmaceutical Society (DPhG). In 2000 he qualified as a pharmacist for pharmaceutical chemistry (mentor Prof. B. Unterhalt) and received the joint junior prize for medical chemistry of the DPhG and the GDCh. In 2003 he was appointed to a C3 Professorship for Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of Freiburg. In 2010, he received a reputation as a W3 Professorship for Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of Mainz. He rejected this reputation and accepted a course offered by the University of Freiburg to a W3 professorship for pharmaceutical chemistry.  The working group is concerned with the synthesis of new inhibitors and the development of screening methods for the identification of new epigenetic drugs. He is a member of national research groups (SPP1463) and international (EU SEtTReND) research groups in the area of ​​epigenetics and co-speaker (spokesman R. Schüle) of the SFB initiative "Medical Epigenetics - MEDEP".

Research Interest

His research focus is on chemical epigenetics.