Dorothea Fiedler

Dorothea Fiedler
Prof. Dr. Dorothea Fiedler
Alma mater	University of Würzburg (Diplom 2001) University of California at Berkeley (PhD 2005)
Scientific career
Institutions	Princeton University, Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie
Doctoral advisors	Kenneth N. Raymond, Robert G. Bergman
Other academic advisors	Kevan M. Shokat

Dorothea Fiedler is a chemical biologist and also the first female director of the Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (Leibniz Research Institute for Molecular Pharmacology, FMP) in Berlin, Germany.

Fiedler grew up in Hamburg.^[1] She studied inorganic chemistry at the University of Würzburg,^[2] then carried out doctorate research on organometallic chemistry at the University of California at Berkeley.^[1][3]

Although her PhD research focussed on organometallic chemistry^[4][5] including host-guest systems and applications to catalysis,^[6][7] Fiedler became interested in cellular signal transduction pathways during her postdoctoral research at the University of California, San Francisco.^[1][8] She started her independent career as an assistant professor at Princeton University in 2010.^[9] Her research focuses on the synthesis and signalling roles of inositol phosphates,^[10] in particular, those with a pyrophosphate functionality,^{[11][12][13][14]} which has relevance to cellular signalling and cancer biology.^[15][16]

In 2015, Fiedler became the director of the Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie as well as a professor of chemistry at the Humboldt University of Berlin.^[17] She continues developing her research focus on the synthesis and signalling roles of protein modifications involving pyrophosphates,^[18][19] as well as building collaborations on biological chemistry and catalysis.^[20]

Fiedler has received a New Innovator Award totalling over $2 million from the NIH in 2013.^[21] She also received funding from the Sidney Kimmel Foundation for Cancer Research^[22][23] and the Rita Allen Foundation.^[24] During her postdoctoral research, she received the Ernst Schering Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, was on the Fastrack Program of the Robert Bosch Foundation, and obtained an NIH Pathway to Independence Award.^[25]

Fiedler is an invited speaker at the EMBO conference on Chemical Biology 2016^[26] and at the International Symposium on Bioorganic Chemistry in 2017.^[27]

Fiedler is one of the local organizers of the 42nd National Organic Chemistry Symposium by the organic division of the American Chemical Society in 2011.^[28]