Trond Ulven

CV

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1/18-present: Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen
7/2017-12/2018: Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, Department of Physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Southern Denmark
10/2015–present: Director and co-founder, Caldan Therapeutics
10/2012-6/2017: Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry with special responsibilities in entrepreneurship, Department of Physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Southern Denmark
9/2005–9/2012: Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, Department of Physics and Chemistry, University of Southern Denmark
9/2001–8/2005: Senior Scientist, 7TM Pharma A/S, Hørsholm, Denmark
1/2000–8/2001: Postdoctoral Research Associate, The Scripps Research Institute, San Diego, USA

EDUCATION
1999: Doctor engineer (dr.ing.) of Organic Chemistry, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Faculty of Chemistry and Biology, Department of Organic Chemistry
1994: Civil engineer (siv.ing.) of Organic Chemistry Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH)
1992: Examen philosophicum, University of Trondheim, Norway

Short presentation

The research activities in our group are within medicinal chemistry, drug discovery, and development of tools and synthetic method for these areas. We are especially interested in G protein-coupled 7-transmembrane receptors, best known as GPCRs. We have especially focused on the free fatty acid receptors, a group of receptors that has great potential as drug targets. We are also interested in various other targets within inflammation and metabolic diseases, including chemokine receptors and the energy level monitoring kinase AMPK. Our medicinal chemistry projects revolved design - synthesis - evaluation to map structure-activity relationships and efficiently identify compounds with desired properties. Much of our effort go into synthesis and we continuously aim at developing simpler and more efficient, as well as greener, synthetic methods that can be useful to medicinal chemistry.