Dr. Anna Junker

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Academic Education
11/2009 - 05/2013	Ph. D. Studies at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry Westphalian Wilhelms-University in Münster, Germany under Supervision of Professor Dr. B. Wünsch „Synthesis of Novel Chemokine Receptor 5 Antagonists by Late-Stage Diversification and Evaluation of their Structure-Affinity Relationships“
Work Experience
since 05/2018	Emmy-Noether Reasearch Group Leader P2X7 and P2X4 Receptors in Cancer and Inflammation: Drug Development, Bioimaging, and Targeted Drug Delivery
11/2015 - 04/2018	Cells in Motion (Cluster of Excellence) funded Postdoctoral Fellow at the Westphalian Wilhelms-University in Münster, Germany
11/2014 - 10/2015	Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) funded Postdoctoral Fellow in the group of Prof. Dr. Kenneth. A. Jacobson at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry (LBC), the National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), Bethesda, USA.
09/2013 - 10/2014	Postdoctoral Fellow in the group of Prof. Dr. Christa E. Müller at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University in Bonn, Germany (Neuroalliance Consortium)
Functions and Memberships
since 01/2018	Chairwoman of the regional group Westfalen-Lippe of the German Pharmaceutical Society (DPhG)
since 01/2010	Member of the German Pharmaceutical Society (Deutsche Pharmazeutische Geselllschaft DPhG)

Publications

Effects of Axonal Demyelination, Inflammatory Cytokines and Divalent Cation Chelators on Thalamic HCN Channels and Oscillatory Bursting Oniani T, Vinnenberg L, Chaudhary R, Schreiber JA, Riske K, Williams B, Pape HC, White JA, Junker A, Seebohm G, Meuth SG, Hundehege P, Budde T, Zobeiri M (2022) In: International Journal of Molecular Sciences (IJMS), 23(11) Type of Publication: Research article (journal)
Structure–Activity Relationship of Purine and Pyrimidine Nucleotides as Ecto-5′-Nucleotidase (CD73) Inhibitors Junker A, Renn C, Dobelmann C, Namasivayam V, Jain S, Losenkova K, Irjala H, Duca S, Balasubramanian R, Chakraborty S, Börgel F, Zimmermann H, Yegutkin GG, Müller CE, Jacobson KA (2019) In: Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2019 Type of Publication: Research article (journal)
Molecular structure of a brominated 2-benzazepinone – a crucial intermediate in the synthesis of novel chemokine CCR2 receptor antagonists Kokornaczyk Artur, K. Thum, Simone Daniliuc Constantin, G. Junker, Anna Wünsch, Bernhard (2017) In: Zeitschrift für Naturforschung B - A Journal of Chemical Sciences, 72 Type of Publication: Research article (journal)
Synthesis and biological evaluation of chemokine receptor ligands with 2-benzazepine scaffold Thum, S (Thum, Simone)[ 1 ] ; Kokornaczyk, AK (Kokornaczyk, Artur K.)[ 1 ] ; Seki, T (Seki, Tomoaki)[ 2 ] ; De Maria, M (De Maria, Monica)[ 3,4 ] ; Zacarias, NVO (Zacarias, Natalia V. Ortiz)[ 5 ] ; de Vries, H (de Vries, Henk)[ 5 ] ; Weiss, C (Weiss, Christina)[ 6 ] ; Koch, M (Koch, Michael)[ 6 ] ; Schepmann, D (Schepmann, Dirk)[ 1 ] ; Kitamura, M (Kitamura, Masato)[ 2 ] ; Tschammer, N (Tschammer, Nuska)[ 7 ] ; Heitman, LH (Heitman, Laura H.)[ 5 ] ; Junker, A (Junker, Anna)[ 1,8 ] ; Wunsch, B (Wuensch, Bernhard) (2017) In: European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 135 Type of Publication: Research article (journal)
Structure-Based Design of 3-(4-Aryl-1H-1,2,3-triazol-1-yl)-Biphenyl Derivatives as P2Y14 Receptor Antagonists Junker, Anna Balasubramanian, Ramachandran Ciancetta, Antonella Uliassi, Elisa Kiselev, Evgeny Martiriggiano, Chiara Trujillo, Kevin Mtchedlidze, Giorgi Birdwell, Leah Brown, Kyle A. Harden, T. Kendall Jacobson, Kenneth A. (2016) In: Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 59 Type of Publication: Research article (journal)

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Projects

IRTG 2678 - Functional pi-Systems: Activation, Interaction and Application (pi-Sys) Duration: 01/10/2021 - 31/03/2026 \| 1st Funding period Funded by: DFG - International Research Training Group Type of project: Main DFG-project hosted at University of Münster
RTG 2515: Chemical Biology of Ion Channels (Chembion) Duration: 01/10/2019 - 31/03/2024 \| 1st Funding period Funded by: DFG - Research Training Group Type of project: Main DFG-project hosted at University of Münster
P2X7 and P2X4 Receptors in Cancer and Inflammation: Drug Development, Bioimaging, and Targeted Drug Delivery Duration: 01/05/2018 - 31/07/2023 Funded by: DFG Emmy Noether Programme Type of project: Individual project

Doctorates

In Vitro Functional Pharmacological Evaluation of Ligands at Purinergic Targets Candidate: Isaak, Andreas \| Supervisors: Junker, Anna; Wünsch, Bernhard, \| Reviewers: Junker, Anna; Wünsch, Bernhard Period of time: 01/05/2018 - 04/10/2022 Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster
Targeting Purinergic Signaling: From Modulation to Imaging Candidate: Dobelmann, Clemens \| Supervisors: Junker, Anna; Wünsch, Bernhard \| Reviewers: Junker, Anna; Wünsch, Bernhard Period of time: 01/03/2017 - 30/09/2021 Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster
Synthese und Struktur-Affinitäts-Beziehungen neuartiger Bicyclo[3.1.0]hexan-basierter P2Y1- und A3-Rezeptor-Liganden Candidate: Lemmerhirt, Jan Philipp \| Supervisors: Wünsch, Bernhard; Junker, Anna Period of time: 01/01/2016 - 02/10/2019 Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster
Synthesis of Novel Chemokine Receptor 5 Antagonists by Late Stage Diversification and Evaluation of their Structure Affinity Relationships Candidate: Junker, Anna \| Supervisors: Wünsch, Bernhard Period of time: 01/10/2009 - 13/05/2013 Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster