Dirk Trauner

From 1986 to 1991 Trauner studied biology and biochemistry at the University of Vienna. From 1992 to 1995 he studied chemistry at the Free University of Berlin and completed his diploma under Johann Mulzer, whom he followed to Frankfurt and subsequently Vienna as an assistant. In 1997 he completed his PhD under Mulzer at the University of Vienna summa cum laude.{{Cite journal|date=6 April 2010|title=Dirk Trauner|journal=Angewandte Chemie International Edition|language=en|volume=49|issue=16|pages=2822|doi=10.1002/anie.201000719}} From 1998 to 2000 he was a postdoc under Samuel J. Danishefsky at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. In 2000 he moved to the University of California, Berkeley, where from 2000 to 2006 he was assistant professor and from 2006 to 2010 associate professor, with additional affiliation to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory from 2005 to 2008. From 2008 to 2017 he was professor for chemical biology and genetics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. From 2017 to 2022, he was the Janice Cutler Chair in Chemistry at New York University and adjunct professor of neuroscience at NYU Grossman School of Medicine.{{Cite web|title=Education & Research at NYU Langone Health|url=https://med.nyu.edu/education-research|access-date=27 February 2021|website=NYU Langone Health|language=en}} He currently resides as the Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor with joint appointments in the Department of Chemistry in the School of Arts & Sciences and the Department of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics in the Perelman School of Medicine.{{Cite web|title=Dirk Trauner Joins UPenn|url=https://www.chem.upenn.edu/news/2022/07/dirk-trauner-joins-penn|access-date=29 July 2023|website=Dirk Trauner Joins UPenn|language=en}}

Trauner is a leader in the fields of photopharmacology and natural product total synthesis.{{cite web |title=c&en: Photoswitchable drugs could light the way to more targeted treatments |url=https://cen.acs.org/synthesis/medicinal-chemistry/Photoswitchable-drugs-light-way-targeted/96/i14 |accessdate=30 June 2019}}{{cite news |title=The Economist: Colourful chemotherapy |url=https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2015/07/11/colourful-chemotherapy |newspaper=The Economist |accessdate=30 June 2019}}{{Cite web|title=2021 Cope and Cope Scholar Award winners|url=https://cen.acs.org/people/awards/2021-Cope-Cope-Scholar-Award/99/i2|url-status=live|access-date=27 February 2021|website=cen.acs.org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210112114158/https://cen.acs.org/people/awards/2021-Cope-Cope-Scholar-Award/99/i2 |archive-date=12 January 2021 }} His view is that many biologically active substances even of low molecular weight have not yet been discovered, and he has directed his research group to perform the total synthesis of such compounds. Continuing his pioneering work in photopharmacology, his research group is developing chemical tools that are useful in neuroscience and cell biology but also hold promise as precision therapeutics, controlling the activity and presence of biologically active substances using light.{{Cite web|title=Dirk Trauner|url=https://www.traunergroup.org/the-group/dirk-trauner|access-date=27 February 2021|website=www.traunergroup.org}}

• 2021: ACS Cope Scholar Award
• 2017: Member, Leopoldina – German National Academy of Sciences{{Cite web|url=http://www.leopoldina.org/en/members/list-of-members/member/8287/|title=List of Members|website=www.leopoldina.org|language=en|access-date=6 February 2018}}
• 2016: Otto Bayer Award{{cite news|title=Germany : 2016 Otto Bayer Award Goes to Professor Dr. Dirk Trauner|url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-450666149.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161008194858/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-450666149.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=8 October 2016|newspaper=Mena Report|date=26 April 2016}}{{cite web|title=Otto Bayer Awards|url=http://www.bayer-foundations.com/en/otto-bayer-award.aspx|publisher=Bayer|accessdate=2 September 2016|archive-date=4 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150204203954/http://www.bayer-foundations.com/en/otto-bayer-award.aspx|url-status=dead}}
• 2016: Emil Fischer Medal{{cite news |title=Dirk Trauner Receives Emil Fischer Medal |url=https://www.chemistryviews.org/details/ezine/9777681/Dirk_Trauner_Receives_Emil_Fischer_Medal.html |accessdate=30 June 2019 |publisher=Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim}}
• 2013: Kitasato Microbial Chemistry Medal[https://www.leopoldina.org/fileadmin/redaktion/Mitglieder/CV_Trauner_Dirk_D.pdf Leopoldina Trauner CV]
• 2008: Roche Excellence in Chemistry Award
• 2005: Novartis Young Investigator Award
• 2004: Amgen Young Investigator Award

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• [https://www.traunergroup.org/ The Trauner Research Group]

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