Franz Bracher is a pharmacist from education, he held a Chair for Pharmaceutical Chemistry at LMU Munich from 1997 until 2024. His main research interests are in the field of natural products chemistry (total syntheses and elucidation of molecular modes of action) and the chemical synthesis of low-molecular drug candidates for diverse targets, mainly in the field of inhibitors of enzymes in sterol biosynthesis, epigenetic targets (kinases, histone deacylases, PARP), and modulators of cation channels.