Dr. Proksch currently is the professor of Pharmaceutical Biology & Biotechnology in the Heinrich Heine University, Germany. His professional career: 1976 - 1977 Diploma, Biology, University of Cologne 1977 - 1980 Promotion Dr. rer. nat., University of Cologne 1980 – 1982 Post Doctoral Fellow, University of California, Irvine 1982 – 1985 Scientific Assistant University of Cologne (Botany) 1986 – 1990 Scientific Assistant TU Braunschweig (Pharmaceutical Biology) 1988 Habilitation for Pharmaceutical Biology, Technical University of Braunschweig 1990 – 1999 Associate Professor, University of Wuerzburg since 1999 Full Professor and Head of Institute, Universitaet Duesseldorf Honours and Awards 1993 Visiting Professor, Gadjah Mada University at Yogyakarta (Indonesia) 1996 – 2005 Member of DAAD Committee for Cooperation with Indonesia Since 2002 Visiting Professor, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China Since 2007 Visiting Professor, Peking University, China 2008 Commemorative Medal, Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology Since 2009 Visiting Professor, Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Hainan, China. Dr. Proksch currently is the professor of Pharmaceutical Biology & Biotechnology in the Heinrich Heine University, Germany. His professional career: 1976 - 1977 Diploma, Biology, University of Cologne 1977 - 1980 Promotion Dr. rer. nat., University of Cologne 1980 – 1982 Post Doctoral Fellow, University of California, Irvine 1982 – 1985 Scientific Assistant University of Cologne (Botany) 1986 – 1990 Scientific Assistant TU Braunschweig (Pharmaceutical Biology) 1988 Habilitation for Pharmaceutical Biology, Technical University of Braunschweig 1990 – 1999 Associate Professor, University of Wuerzburg since 1999 Full Professor and Head of Institute, Universitaet Duesseldorf Honours and Awards 1993 Visiting Professor, Gadjah Mada University at Yogyakarta (Indonesia) 1996 – 2005 Member of DAAD Committee for Cooperation with Indonesia Since 2002 Visiting Professor, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China Since 2007 Visiting Professor, Peking University, China 2008 Commemorative Medal, Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology Since 2009 Visiting Professor, Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Hainan, China.

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