Irene Schulz - Curriculum Vitae#

• 1960-1966 study of human medicine in Berlin and Göttingen
• 1966 Qualification exam for human medicine at the Free University in Berlin. Thesis (Medical Doctor): "Micropuncture studies and electrical potential difference measuremtns in human sweat glands" at the Institute of Physiology (Free University of Berlin) with Prof. Dr. K. J. Ullrich
• 1966 – 1967 Postdoctoral fellow, National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD, USA. Studies on sweat secretion in cystic fibrosis patients in the laboratories of Dr. J. Orloff (National Heart Institute) and Dr. P. Sant Agnese (National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases)
• 1967-1991 Max-Planck-Institute für Biophysik in Frankfurt (Main), working on the mechanism of HCO3- and enzyme secretion in the exocrine pancreas. Appointment at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University in Frankfurt (Main) for training of medical students (practical courses in Physiology).
• 1975 "Habilitation" in Physiology (qualification for lecturing at the University), J.W. Goethe-University, Frankfurt (Main)
• 1976 Visiting Scientist at the Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, working with Dr. Joel G. Hardman (head of Pharmacology) on the role of cyclic nucleotides in stimulussecretion coupling in isolated pancreatic acinar cells.
• 1979 and 1980 Visiting Scientist in the Laboratory of Membrane Biology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, USA, with Dr. G. Sachs. Research work on coupled Na+-amino acid transport in isolated pancreatic acinar cells
• 1982 - 1991 Associate Professor of Physiology at the J.W. Goethe-University, Frankfurt (Main)
• 1991-2006 Full Professor of Physiology at the Physiological Institute II, University of the Saarland, Homburg/Saar
• since 2007 Retirement

• Academia Europaea, since 1990
• German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina since 1999
• Deutsche Physiologische Gesellschaft (German Physiological Society)
• Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte (Society of German Natural Scientists and Physicians)
• Gesellschaft für Biologische Chemie (Society for Biological Chemistry)
• The American Physiological Society
• The Physiological Society

• 1980 Organizer of the XXVIII Satellite Symposium of the XXVIII International Congress of Physiology on "Hydrogen Ion Transport in Epithelia" in Frankfurt (Main)
• 1986 and 1987 Member of the "Council of the European Pancreatic Club"
• 1989 Member of the Scientific Programm Committee for the XXXI International Congress of Physiological Sciences in Helsinki
• 2001-2010 Vice President of the „International Union of Physiological Sciences (IUPS),
• Chair of the IUPS Commission Group "Secretion and Absorption", Member of the International Scientific Program Committee of IUPS, Member of the Nominating Committee of IUPS
• 2003 Organizer of the International symposium of the Leopoldina on “Epithelial Transport of Ions in Health and Disease“ in Halle/Germany
• 2009 Organizer of the Symposium “Molecular basis of pancreatitis on the XXXVI International Congress of Physiological Sciences in Kyoto, Japan

• 1981 Award of the Rhein-Main-Society for Gastroenterology
• since 1990 Member of the Academia Europaea
• since 2005 Head of Section Physiology > Gastrointestinal Physiology in the Faculty1000
• since 2007 Spokesperson and Vice Senator of the section “Physiology“ in the Leopoldina
• since 2008 Class spokesperson of Class II in the Leopoldina.