Peptides as toxins/defensins
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Helma Wennemers HW received her master (Diploma) degree in chemistry from the University of Frankfurt in 1993 and her PhD degree from Columbia University New York in 1996. After two years as a postdoctoral researcher at Nagoya University, she joined the faculty at the University of Basel where she is now associate professor of chemistry. Her research focuses on the use of peptides in supramolec...
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عنوان ژورنال: Amino Acids
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0939-4451,1438-2199
DOI: 10.1007/s00726-010-0726-9