Anna Hirsch
Stratingh Institute for Chemistry University of Groningen The Netherlands
Biography
Anna K H Hirsch read Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge and spent her third year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her Master’s project focused on the double conjugate addition of dithiols to propargylic carbonyls under the supervision of Prof. S. V. Ley. She received her PhD in 2008 from the ETH Zurich working on the design and synthesis of the first inhibitors for the kinase IspE under the supervision of Prof. F. Diederich. Subsequently, she joined the group of Prof. Jean-Marie Lehn at ISIS (Strasbourg). Her research interests focus on rational approaches to drug design.
Abstract
Abstract : Small-molecule modulators of thiamine transport in pathogenic bacteria