Niels H. Andersen

Dr. Niels H. Andersen is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Washington. His work focuses on the fundamental thermodynamics and structural features associated with biorecognition and practical applications of drug design. He has developed a substantial body of work around structural identification of bioactive compounds isolated from natural sources and, more recently, synthesis and design of drug candidates based on SAR in a lead series and NMR structure based design. Dr. Andersen is an expert at using multi-dimensional proton, carbon and fluorine NMR for structure and stereochemistry determination, and the use of circular dichroism to determine absolute stereochemistry.