Curriculum Vitae Professor Dr. Martin J. Lohse
Name: Martin J. Lohse Born: 26 August 1956 in Mainz
Research Interests: Receptor physiology, Receptor pharmacology, Molecular biology of receptor functions
Academic and professional career Since 2003 Managing Director of the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg Graduate Schools Since 1993 Professor and Chairman of the Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Würzburg 1990 ‐ 1993 Working group leader at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in the Gene Center of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried 1990 Assistant Professor, medical research, Duke University, Durham, US 1990 Certified as medical specialist in pharmacology and toxicology 1988 ‐ 1990 Research Associate at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute of Duke University, Durham, US 1988 Obtained post‐doctoral teaching qualification in pharmacology and toxicology from Heidelberg University 1983 ‐ 1987 Research Assistant at the pharmacology institutes of the universities of Bonn and Heidelberg 1978 ‐ 1981 Completed dissertation in neurobiology at the Max Planck Institute for Biophisical Chemistry in Göttingen; obtained doctorate from Göttingen University (1981) 1974 ‐ 1981 Studied medicine and philosophy in Göttingen, London and Paris; passed state examination in medicine (1981)
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Functions in academic societies and committees (selection) Since 2009 Vice‐President of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Halle (Saale) Since 2009 Vice‐President for Research, University of Würzburg Since 2009 Max Planck Society: Member of the Presidential Committee of the International Max Planck Research Schools Since 2009 Member of the board of trustees of the Hamburg Research and Science Foundation Since 2009 Member of the board of trustees of the Protestant Institute for Interdisciplinary Research, Heidelberg Since 2008 Chairman of the advisory board of the Institute for Functional Genomics, Montpellier, France Since 2008 Chairman of the advisory board of the Institute of Molecular Medicine, Toulouse, France 2007 ‐ 2008 Chairman of the advisory board of the Rangueil Institute of Molecular Medicine, Toulouse, France 2007 ‐ 2009 Member of the senate and university council of the University of Würzburg Since 2006 Vice‐Dean of the Graduate School of Life Sciences of the University of Würzburg 2006 ‐ 2010 Member of the DFG’s Excellence Initiative Grants Committee and the Research Council 2004 ‐ 2009 Vice‐Dean of research at the University of Würzburg Medical Faculty Since 2004 Member of the advisory board of the European Liaison Office of the German Research Organisations (KoWi), Brussels; Chairman since 2009 Since 2003 Founding Director of the University of Würzburg Graduate Schools 2003 ‐ 2008 Member of the National Ethics Council 2001 ‐ 2009 Member of the DFG Commission on Clinical Research
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Company founder 2012 advanceCOR GmbH, Martinsried 2007 Corimmun GmbH, Martinsried 2000 ProCorde GmbH (Trigen GmbH since 2005), Martinsried
Honours and awarded memberships (selection) 2013 Member of the Academia Europaea 2012 Svedberg Lecturer at Uppsala University, Sweden 2012 Vallee Foundation Professor, Harvard Medical School, Boston (MA) 2010 Jacob Henle Medal of Georg‐August‐Universität Göttingen
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Main research interests
Receptor physiology
Receptor pharmacology
Molecular biology of receptor functions (intracellular signal transduction and its retroactive desensitising effect on receptors; adrenergic and parathyroid hormone receptors; the role of the β1 adrenoreceptor in heart failure)
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