Sebastian Pomplun

Associate Professor - Drug Discovery - Leiden

The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands

About

https://pomplunlab.com/

Experience

  • Leiden University ()
    • Associate Professor - Drug Discovery
      May 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 3 mos

    • Assistant Professor - Drug Discovery - (Tenure Track)
      Sep 2021 - May 2024 · 2 yrs 9 mos

      Development of combinatorial drug discovery platforms for novel chemical modalities Structure guided design of peptidomimetic therapeutics Synthetic transcription factors Bioorthogonal reaction development

  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Jan 2019 - Sep 2021 · 2 yrs 9 mos

  • Postdoctoral Researcher at Roche
    Sep 2015 - Nov 2018 · 3 yrs 3 mos

    Development of new bioorthogonal reactions (for Site Specific Conjugation on antibodies, proteins, condensation of biomolecules etc.). Design and synthesis of unnatural amino acids and phosphoramidites (building blocks, functional linkers, cleavable linker etc). Solid Phase Peptide and Oligonucleotide synthesis. Peptide-Oligonucleotide conjugates (POCs).

  • Max-Planck-Institute for Psychiatry ()
    • PHD
      May 2012 - Aug 2015 · 3 yrs 4 mos

      PhD Summa cum Laude Design and synthesis of small molecule inhibitors for FK506 binding proteins. Experience in : Drug Design and Modeling Organic Synthesis HPLC, LCMS, NMR eADME Protein - Ligand Affinity Assays

    • PHD
      May 2012 - Aug 2015 · 3 yrs 4 mos