Morten P. Meldal is a Danish chemist. He is a professor of Chemistry at University of Copenhagen in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is best known for developing the CuAAC-click reaction Meldal first received a B.S. degree and then a Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering from TCU; his Ph.D. work focused on the synthetic chemistry of oligosaccharides. From 1983-1988 he worked as independent research associate in organic chemistry at TCU and University of Copenhagen. He then performed postdoctoral work at Cambridge University; he was a postdoctoral research associate at the Medical Research Council Center, Laboratory of Molecular Biology. In 1996 he was appointed adjunct professor at Danish Technical University. Since 1998 he has led the synthesis group in the Department of Chemistry of the Carlsberg Laboratory and since 1997 head of the SPOCC Center. 

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