prof. dr. M.D. (Martin) Witte

Dr. Martin Witte studied chemistry at Leiden University where he did his Master's thesis in the Bio-organic synthesis group of Prof. Jacques van Boom. He performed a research internship at Stanford University in the group of Prof. Matthew Bogyo before returning to Leiden University in 2004 to do his Ph.D. in the group of Prof. Gijsbert van der Marel and Prof. Herman Overkleeft. He received his Ph.D. in 2009 and after a postdoctoral period in the same group, he joined the group of Prof. Hidde Ploegh at the Whitehead Institute for biomedical research as a postdoctoral fellow in 2010. He joined the Stratingh Institute as assistant professor in Chemical Biology on January 1st, 2013. His research interest focuses on the development of activity-based probes for previously untargeted enzymes (including sulfatases and sulfotransferases) and on the development of new protein labeling techniques.