{"id":1141,"date":"2024-05-31T22:55:58","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T19:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bulpepsoc.uctm.edu\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2024-05-31T22:56:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T19:56:00","slug":"it-is-with-great-sadness-that-we-announce-the-news-that-professor-luis-moroder-passed-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bulpepsoc.uctm.edu\/?p=1141","title":{"rendered":"It is with great sadness that we announce the news that Professor Luis Moroder passed away."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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It is with great sadness that we announce\nthe news that Professor Luis Moroder passed away on 18 May 2024. He was 84\nyears old. His loss will be deeply felt by his family, friends and the peptide\ncommunity at large.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Luis Moroder (born December 6, 1940)\nis an Italian peptide chemist who pioneered the study of interactions between\npeptide hormones and cell membrane-bound hormone receptors. He later extended\nthis research to other biological systems of medical importance, such as\nprotein inhibitors, collagens, and synthetic proteins. A distinctive feature of\nhis research is interdisciplinary, reflected in the use and development of\nmethods in organic chemistry, biophysics and molecular biology. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moroder’s\ncareer has followed the arc of development of the peptide field. After his\nundergraduate studies he received his Ph.D. in 1965 at the at the University of\nPadua in the laboratory of Professor Ernesto Scofone with a doctoral thesis on\nthe synthesis of the S-peptide of ribonuclease A. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

His\npostdoctoral fellowship in 1968 at the University of Pittsburgh with Professor\nKlaus H. Hoffman was on the chemical synthesis of peptide adrenocorticotropic\nhormone and its derivatives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moroder\nobtained his habilitation in 1971 at the University of Padua in natural product\nchemistry. In 1975 he became a senior researcher in the Department of Peptide\nChemistry at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry (MPIB) in Martinsried,\nheaded by Erich W\u00fcnsch. From 1991 to 2008, he was the head of the Laboratory of\nBioorganic Chemistry at MFIB. Since 1994, he has been an assistant professor,\nand from 1997-1998 professor of Biochemistry and Biotechnology at the Technical\nUniversity of Munich.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Luis Moroder\nhas authored more than 500 publications and mentored many students during his\nlong academic career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is\nco-editor of the five-volume Houben-Weyl, Methods of Organic Chemistry, Peptide\nSynthesis and Peptidomimetics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

From 2008\nto 2019, he was Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Peptide Science, the official\njournal of the European Peptide Society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the years he was awarded with:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 1995:\nMax-Bergmann-Medal of the MBK Society;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 2004:\nJosef R\u00fcdinger Prize of the European Peptide Society;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 2011:\nDoctor honoris causa, Sergi-Pontoise University, Paris;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 2018:\nJapan Peptide Society Akabori Memorial Lecture Award;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 2020:\nErnesto Scofone Award of the Italian Peptide Society;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professor Moroder was a unique and\nunforgettable person. He was an outstanding peptide chemist and biochemist. The\npassion and advocacy for scientific quality and morality in science was liked\nby the people he met. It was always clear to those who knew him that he\nexpected high standards from his scientific colleagues. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He maintained these standards\nthroughout the time he was the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Peptide\nScience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professor Moroder leaves behind his\nwife Annemarie and family, countless undergraduates, PhD students and peptide\nchemists who were fortunate enough to know him over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bulgarian Peptide Society<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is with great sadness that we announce the news that Professor Luis Moroder passed away on 18 May 2024. He was 84 years old. His loss will be deeply felt by his family, friends and the peptide community at large. Luis Moroder (born December 6, 1940) is an Italian peptide chemist who pioneered the … <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-bulpepso","4":"post-1141","6":"format-standard","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulpepsoc.uctm.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulpepsoc.uctm.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulpepsoc.uctm.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulpepsoc.uctm.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulpepsoc.uctm.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bulpepsoc.uctm.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulpepsoc.uctm.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulpepsoc.uctm.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulpepsoc.uctm.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}