Jürgen Rohr

Biography

 Jürgen Rohr took his current position as Full Professor at the College of Pharmacy of the University of Kentucky in 2002, where he is currently the Director of the Division of Drug Discovery. Jürgen Rohr graduated from the University of Göttingen, Germany, in 1984, with a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry (major) and Microbiology (minor). He was post-doc in Prof. Heinz Floss’ laboratory at the Department of Chemistry of the Ohio-State-University, Columbus, Ohio, USA, until 1987. Before joining University of Kentucky, Dr. Rohr was Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Göttingen, Germany, and Associate Professor at the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences of the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA. His research interests span isolation and structure elucidation of natural products, biosynthetic studies of microbial natural products, combinatorial biosynthesis and enzymology, with focus on polyketides and more recently on enzymatic total syntheses.

Research Interest

 General Science