Cardiovascular Pharmacology: Open Access

Martin J. Lohse

Biography

Martin Lohse studied Medicine and Philosophy at the Universities Göttingen, London and Paris. He earned his PhD in Neurobiology at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen. His career then took him to Bonn, Heidelberg, Duke University in Durham (USA) and the Gene Center of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry Martinsried (Munich). In 1993 he became a Professor and Director of the Institute for Pharmacology and Toxicology at the Universität Würzburg. From 2009 to 2015, he was Vice President for Research at the Universität Würzburg. Between 2003 and 2008, Martin Lohse was a member of the German Ethics Council. He has founded three biotechnology companies and was the Founding Speaker of the Rudolf Wirchow Center, the DFG research center for Experimental Biomedicine of the Universität Würzburg. In 2003, he became the Founding Director of the Graduate School of the Universität Würzburg.Dr Lohse is a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Vice President of the Leopoldina National Academy of Sciences and has been awarded the Leibniz Award, the Ernst Jung Award for Medicine, the Research Achievement Award of the International Society of Heart Research, and is a recipient of two prestigious grants from the European Research Council.

Research Interest

The main area of research is risk stratification and genetics of sudden cardiac death, Functional genetics of cardiac arrhythmias, and Genetic determinants of normal,Pharmacology and Toxicology