Prof. Dr. Günther Jung

Curriculum vitae

Günther Jung studied Chemistry (degree: Diplom-Chemiker) at the Eberhard-Karls-University of Tübingen (1959-1965) and received his doctoral degree (Dr. rer. nat. in Organic Chemistry) in 1967. In 1967/1968 he was Assistant Professor at the University Houston, Texas. In 1971, after his "habilitation" in the field of Chemistry of Natural Products, he received a "teaching permission" for Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, and since 1973 a permanent professorship at the Institute of Organic Chemistry at the University of Tübingen. He declined several calls to other instutes and build up one of the most recognised research group for peptide and bioorganic chemistry. He was also Head of the Biochemistry Department at the Naturwissenschaftlich-Medizinischem Institut, University of Tübingen (1992-1996) and he is presently Head of the Steinbeis-Transferzentrum "Bioorganic Chemistry", University of Tübingen (since 1996). He is cofounder and Chief Scientific Officer of EMC microcollections GmbH since 1996, and Director of Chemistry of CureVac GmbH (since 2001).