Prof. Dr. Christian Schöneich

Dr. Schöneich is the Takeru Higuchi Distinguished Professor for Bioanalytical Chemistry and Chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at The University of Kansas. Between 1987 and 1991 he worked in the Department of Radiation Chemistry at the Hahn-Meitner Institute in Berlin, Germany. He joined the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at The University of Kansas as a post-doctoral fellow in 1991, and as a faculty member in 1992; in 2004, he was a Visiting Professor at the ETH Zürich, Switzerland. His research focuses on oxidation reactions of peptides, proteins, and surfactants. With respect to peptides and proteins, he studies oxidation reactions in vivo and in vitro, and their potential consequences for the development of stable protein pharmaceuticals, biological aging, and age-related pathologies. He has published over 290 papers in the field of peptide and protein oxidation reactions.