Dr. Dirk Ullmann
Angestellt, Global Head Drug Discovery Services and Managing Director Evotec (München) GmbH, Evotec AG
Neuried, Germany
Timeline
Professional experience for Dirk Ullmann
Current 5 years and 5 months, since Jan 2018
Global Head Drug Discovery Services and Managing Director Evotec (München) GmbH
Evotec AG
Global Responsibilities for HitID by HT Technologies, Biophysics etc., Protein and Cellular Sciences, Structural Biology, Compound Management, ADME-tox/DMPK and Proteomics.
Current 11 years and 9 months, since Sep 2011
Executive Vice President Lead Discovery, Managing Director Evotec (München) GmbH
Evotec AG
Responsibilities for Proteomics, Structural biology, Biophysics incl. NMR, Biochemical Assays, Screening Operations: Processes: Hit ID, Fragment ID, Hit Triaging, Protein Production, Structural Biology and Structure-Based Drug Design (SBDD), Technology Scouting and Development
2 years and 8 months, Jan 2009 - Aug 2011
Chief Scientific Officer (CSO)
Proteros biostructures GmbH
2 years, Jan 2007 - Dec 2008
Senior Vice President Discovery Biology
Evotec AG
4 years and 8 months, May 2002 - Dec 2006
Director Biology Services
Evotec AG
2 years and 5 months, Dec 1999 - Apr 2002
Head of Screening Operations
Evotec AG
1 year and 3 months, Oct 1998 - Dec 1999
Section Head Assay Development
Evotec Biosystems AG
1 year and 1 month, Sep 1997 - Sep 1998
Research Scientist New Technologies Physics
Evotec Biosystems
Educational background for Dirk Ullmann
1995 - 1997
Protein Engineering
Brandeis University (Waltham, MA, USA)
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Lizbeth K. Hedstrom; Prof. Dr. Robert H. Abeles Performed site-directed mutagenesis to explore the structural features which determine the S’ subsite specificity of serine proteases and its proenzymes.
1992 - 1997
Scientific Assistant
University of Leipzig
- Design of proteases and zymogens as new biocatalysts in peptide and protein synthesis - Directed evolution of proteases as restriction proteases and peptide ligases - Conversion of enzyme specificity by protein and substrate engineering - Construction of „substrate mimetics“
2 months, Sep 1991 - Oct 1991
Institute of Science and technology
Universit y of Manchester
1991 - 1994
Biochemistry
University of Leipzig
Solid phase synthesis of a pentapeptide library and their use to explore the S’ subsite specificity of the cysteine protease clostripain
1990 - 1991
Inorganic Chemistry
University of Leipzig
Investigations on the reactivity of dithiocarboxyesters with nucleophiles. Functionalization to derivatives with ligand properties and synthesis of metal complexes.
Languages
German
First language
English
Fluent
Russian
Intermediate