Christian Gruber is research group leader and Associate Professor at the Medical University of Vienna (Austria). He studied Biochemistry at the University of Tübingen (Germany) and received a Ph.D. in Molecular Biosciences from The University of Queensland (Australia). His research focus to study biological function, structure-activity relationship and pharmacological mechanism of nature-derived peptides isolated from plants and invertebrates (e.g., peptide hormones, neuropeptides and peptide toxins), and the development of novel peptide therapeutics, especially as ligands of G protein-coupled receptors.

Further information: www.gruber-lab.com