Resume Prof. dr. Rob M.J. Liskamp

Prof. dr. Rob Liskamp studied organic chemistry in Nijmegen. In 1982 he did his PhD on a study of cytostaticum sparsomycine and analoga. After his doctorate, he left for three years to New York (United States) at The Institute of Cancer Research.
There he knowledged himself in the effect of tumour promoters and in molecular modelling. Back in The Netherlands he did a research in Leiden in modified peptides and peptidomimetics.
In 1991 he stayed in Los Angeles in context of a sabbatical leave (United States) where he worked on the synthesis of dendrimers. From 1994 he is head of the Department of Medicinal Chemistry at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences. The Department of Medicinal Chemistry is a research programme of The Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences. In 1996 he became professor of molecular medicinal chemistry. Liskamp is member of the executive board of the Netherlands Proteomics Centre. He is chairman of the Study group "Design and Synthesis" and he is a member of the policy committee "Synthetic Chemistry" of the NOW division Chemical Sciences (CW-NWO). He is editor of The European Journal of Organic Chemistry, ChemBioChem, and of QSAR & Combinatorial Science.