Research interests

• Development of new antiinfective agents (mainly antifungal compounds)
• Development of new anticancer agents
• Development of new kinase inhibitors
• Development of new screening systems
• Natural product chemistry
• Drug analysis (determination in biological media and (in trace amounts) as pollutants in waste-water

Short CV

• Since 1997 C4 Professor for Pharmaceutical Chemistry, LMU Munich
• 1992-1997 C3 Professor, University of Braunschweig
• 1991 Habilitation, University of Marburg
• 1987-1992 Research Assistant, Marburg
• 1986-1987 Postdoctoral Researcher at the Departement de Chimie Organique, University of Geneve/Switzerland
• 1986 PhD, LMU Munich
• Studied pharmacy at the LMU Munich

Key publications

• F. Bracher, W. J. Eisenreich, J. Mühlbacher, M. Dreyer, G. Bringmann:
  Saludimerines A and B, novel-type dimeric alkaloids with stereogenic centers and configurationally semistable biaryl axes
  J. Org. Chem. 69, 8602 (2004)


• F. Plößl, M. Giera, F. Bracher:
  Multiresidue analytical method using dispersive solid-phase extraction and gas chromatography/ion trap mass spectrometry to determine pharmaceuticals in whole blood
  J. Chromatogr. A 1135, 19 (2006)


• M. Giera, D. Renard, F. Plössl, F. Bracher:
  Lathosterol side chain amides – a new class of human lathosterol oxidase inhibitors
  Steroids 73, 299 (2007)