Martin Lohse#
| Membership Number: | 3644 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2013 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.pharmakologie.uni-wuerzburg.de |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2009 Vice President for Research, University of Würzburg
- Since 2003 Director Graduate Schools University of Würzburg
- since 1993 Professor for Pharmacology and Toxicology, University Wuerzburg, Germany
- 1990 - 1993 Head of working group, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University Munich, Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried
- 1990 Assistant Professor, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Duke University, Durham, USA
- 1988 - 1989 Research Associate, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Duke University, Durham, USA (Prof. R.J. Lefkowitz)
- 1983 - 1988 Scientific Assistant, Institutes for Pharmacology, Universities Bonn (1983) and Heidelberg (1983-1988; Prof. U. Schwabe)
Fields of Scholarship
- Physiology of receptors
- Pharmacology of receptors
- Molecular biology of receptor function, intracellular signal transduction and its retroactive effect on receptors in terms of desensitization
- Advanced fluorescence microscopy of intact cells and of receptor signaling
- Receptors of the adrenergic system and other G-protein-coupled receptors
- Role of receptors in the heart
Honours and Awards
- 2009 - 2019 Vice President of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- 2012 Svedberg-Lecturer University Uppsala, Sweden
- 2012 Professorship of the Vallee Foundation, Harvard Medical School
- 2010 Jacob-Henle-Medal, Georg-August-University Goettingen
- 2009 Ariens Award of the Dutch Pharmacological Society
- 2008 ERC Advanced Investigator Grant, TOPAS
- 2007 Research Achievement Award of the International Society for Heart Research (ISHR)
- 2006 Bavarian Order of Merit
- 2004 Member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts
- 2002 German Federal Cross of Merit, First Class
- 2000 Ernst-Jung-Prize for Medicine
- 2000 Member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- 1999 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Prize by the German Research Foundation
- 1998 Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
- 1997 Chaire P. Dumont (Université Louvain)
- 1996 Wilhelm-Vaillant-Prize
- 1993 Rudolf-Thauer-Prize of the German Society for Cardiology and Cardiovascular Research
- 1991 Research Prize of the German Federal Ministry of Health
- 1990 Heisenberg-Fellowship of the German Research Foundation
- 1987 Claudius-Galenus-Prize
- 1986 Fritz-Külz-Prize of the German Society for Pharmacology
