Prof. Dr. Christian Schöneich

Prof. Dr. Christian Schöneich is the Takeru Higuchi Distinguished Professor for Bioanalytical Chemistry and Chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at The University of Kansas. Between 1987 and 1991, he worked in the Department of Radiation Chemistry at the Hahn-Meitner Institute in Berlin, Germany.

He joined the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at The University of Kansas as a post-doctoral fellow in 1991 and as a faculty member in 1992; in 2004, he was a visiting professor at the ETH Zürich, Switzerland. His research focuses on oxidation reactions of peptides, proteins, and surfactants. Concerning peptides and proteins, he studies oxidation reactions in vivo and in vitro and their potential consequences for developing stable protein pharmaceuticals, biological aging, and age-related pathologies. He has published over 290 papers on peptide and protein oxidation reactions.