[5] He then continued onto the University of Frankfurt receiving a Ph.D. in structural biology in 2001, where he was funded by the German National Merit Foundation scholarship.
[6] Meiler then completed his post-doctoral work in the same field through the Human Frontier Science Program at the University of Washington from 2001 to 2004.
[7] His postdoctoral adviser was David Baker (biochemist), the Henrietta and Aubrey Davis Endowed Professor in Biochemistry, University of Washington.
After completing a postdoctoral fellowship, Meiler served as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Pharmacology, and Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University.
[9] As part of the award, Meiler collaborated with colleagues at Leipzig University on the study of G-protein coupled receptors.