Ute Schepers studied Chemistry at the Kekulé-Institut für Organische Chemie und Biochemie, University of Bonn (Germany), where she completed her PhD thesis in the laboratory of Prof. Dr. K. Sandhoff in 1997. She then moved to Boston for a post-doctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Tomas Kirchhausen at the Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School. Since her return to Bonn in 2000 she is pursuing her own research projects using a combination of chemical and genetic methods for the further development of RNA interference in mammals. One of her main efforts is the chemical synthesis of novel molecular transporters for therapeutical RNAi application.