Education and Training 1974 - 1981 Studies in medicine and philosophy, Universities of Göttingen (Germany), London (UK) and Paris (France) 1978 - 1981 MD thesis, Max Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemistry, Department of Neurobiology and University of Göttingen (Germany) 1988 Habilitation, Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Heidelberg (Germany) Positions and Employment 1983 - 1988 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Institute of Pharmacology, University of Heidelberg (Germany) – U. Schwabe 1988 - 1990 Research Assistant/Assistant Prof., Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Duke University, Durham (NC, USA) – R.J. Lefkowitz 1990 - 1993 Group leader, Gene Center, University of Munich/MPI Biochemistry, Martinsried (Germany) Since 1993 - Professor and Chair, Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Würzburg (Germany) Since 2001 - Chairman, Rudolf Virchow Center /DFG-Research Center for Experimental Biomedicine, University of Würzburg (Germany) Since 2003 - Director Graduate Schools University of Würzburg Since 2009 - Vice President for Research, University of Würzburg

Main interests Molecular pharmacology, receptors and signal transduction, cardiovascular pharmacology  Ongoing research Mechanismen der Aktivierung und Inaktivierung von Rezeptoren