Amnon Albeck
Amnon Albeck | |
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Born | Jerusalem | August 1, 1958
Citizenship | Israeli |
Alma mater | Bar Ilan University Weizmann Institute of Science |
Known for | Chemistry of peptides and peptidomimetics, Protease mechanism and inhibition |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Chemistry, Biochemistry |
Institutions | Bar Ilan University |
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Amnon Albeck (Hebrew: אמנון אלבק; born August 1, 1958) is an organic and bioorganic chemist.
Biography[]
Amnon Albeck[1] was born in Jerusalem, Israel, to Michael and Shulamit Albeck on August 1, 1958. Amnon's father is the chemist Prof. Michael Albeck, the fifth president of Bar Ilan University (1986-1989)[2] and former president of (1977-1980).[3] His grandfather, Hanoch Albeck was a professor of Talmud at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem who was one of the founders of the scientific approach to the study of the Mishna.[4]
Albeck graduated from Bar Ilan University (Ramat Gan, Israel) with a BSc in chemistry in 1982, and earned his PhD from The Weizmann Institute of Science (Rehovot, Israel), under the supervision of , in 1988. He then spent two years as a post-doctoral Fellow with at Brandeis University in Massachusetts, USA.
In 1990 he returned to Bar Ilan University as a faculty member at the , where Albeck is now a Professor and the head of The Bioorganic Chemistry Laboratory.[5] He is also a member of The Marcus Center for Medicinal Chemistry at Bar Ilan University. Albeck served as The Department of Chemistry Chairman in 2008-2011, and he is Bar Ilan University's Vice-Rector since 2014.[1] In July 2020 he was elected Rector of Bar-Ilan University, due to replace Prof. in office.[6]
Amnon and his wife Shira, who is a staff scientist[7] at the Weizmann Institute of Science, have five children and seven grandchildren.
Scientific interests and publications[]
Albeck's research interests include: (1) Organic chemistry of peptides and peptidomimetics;[8] (2) Enzyme mechanisms and inhibition, in particular the study of proteases;[9] (3) Drug development and drug delivery;[10] (4) Development of computational tools[11] for the study of enzyme mechanisms[12] and for drug development;[13] (5) Chemistry and biological activity of tellurium compounds.[14]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Vice Rector's Biography, Bar Ilan University (BIU)
- ^ Bar-Ilan Presidents
- ^ Former ICS presidents
- ^ Marcus, Rabbi Yosef (2017-07-11). "Shiur #20: Commentaries on the Mishna from the 20th Century, Part 1". www.etzion.org.il. Retrieved 2021-03-02.
- ^ Albeck's page at the Department of Chemistry, Bar Ilan University
- ^ Prof. Amnon Albeck Elected Rector of Bar-Ilan University, July 5, 2020
- ^ Dr. Shira Albeck, Weizmann Institute of Science Archived December 22, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ J. Org. Chem. 1994, 59, 653-657, DOI: 10.1021/jo00082a026; Tetrahedron 2000, 56, 1505-1516, DOI:10.1016/S0040-4020(00)00036-3; Tetrahedron 2009, 65, 1389-1396, DOI: 10.1016/j.tet.2008.12.046; Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2010, 4671-4686, DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.201000539; J. Pept. Sci. 2015, 21, 512-519, DOI: 10.1002/psc.2771.
- ^ J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1996, 118, 3591-3596, DOI: 10.1021/ja954261y; Biochem. J. 1997, 322, 879-884, DOI: 10.1042/bj3220879; Biochem. J. 2000, 346, 71-76, DOI: 10.1042/bj3460071; Proteins 2000, 40, 154-167,Wiley Online Library; Proteins 2004, 54, 468-477, DOI: 10.1002/prot.10610; Proteins 2009, 77, 916-926, DOI: 10.1002/prot.22516; Proteins 2011, 79, 975-985, DOI: 10.1002/prot.22939; Protein Sci. 2013, 22, 788-799, DOI: 10.1002/pro.2260; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 2016, in press.
- ^ New J. Chem. 2012, 36, 2188-2191, DOI: 10.1039/C2NJ40567A; Eur. J. Med. Chem. 2014, 85, 139-146, DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2014.07.073; Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2015, 1811-1818, DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.201403549; Biopolymers: Pept. Sci. 2015, 104, 743-752, DOI: 10.1002/bip.22694.
- ^ Molecular modelling
- ^ ChemBioChem, 2007, 8, 1416-1421, DOI: 10.1002/cbic.200700241; Proteins 2008, 70, 1578-1587, DOI: 10.1002/prot.21727; ChemBioChem 2011, 12, 1023-1026, DOI: 10.1002/cbic.201000459; J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2012, 8, 4663-4671, DOI: 10.1021/ct3003767; Isr. J. Chem. 2014, 54, 1137-1151, DOI: 10.1002/ijch.201300144.
- ^ ChemMedChem 2006, 1, 631-638, 639-643, DOI: 10.1002/cmdc.200600029; J. Chem. Info. Model. 2010, 50, 2256-2265, DOI: 10.1021/ci100330y; Mol. Inf. 2014, 33, 36-42, DOI: 10.1002/minf.201300099; Eur. J. Med. Chem. 2014, 77, 134-138, DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2014.02.059.
- ^ Inorg. Chem. 1998, 37, 1704-1712, DOI: 10.1021/ic971456t; FASEB J. 2007, 21, 1870-1883, doi:10.1096/fj.06-7500com; ChemMedChem 2007, 2, 1601-1606, DOI: 10.1002/cmdc.200700155.
- 1958 births
- Living people
- Bar-Ilan University faculty
- Israeli chemists
- Jewish chemists
- Weizmann Institute of Science alumni
- Computational chemists