About Anna K. H. Hirsch
Born 1982. Anna K. H. Hirsch is a researcher.
Anna Katharina Herta Hirsch (born 1982 in Trier) is a German-Luxembourg chemist and professor of medicinal chemistry at Saarland University. Since 2017, she has headed the Department of Drug Design and Optimization at the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS).
Her team focuses on targeted rational drug design to regulate enzymes, transporters, and regulators in bacterial, parasitic and viral pathogens.
She completed her doctoral thesis in the research group of François Diederich at ETH Zurich. Here Hirsch worked on structure-based de novo design and on the synthesis of anti-infectives.
She then moved as an HFSP postdoc to the group of Jean-Marie Lehn at the Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie Supramoléculaires (ISIS) in Strasbourg.
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German-Luxembourg chemist and professor of medicinal chemistry
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