Gerrit Isenberg#
| Membership Number: | 2460 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2007 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2007 Retirement
- 2000 Head of Sonderforschungsbereichof the DFG: Cardiac Failure due to Ageing
- 1995 - 2007 Professor and Chairman, Physiology, Fac. Med., Halle, Germany
- 1985 - 1995 Full Professor, Physiology, Fac. Med., Cologne, Germany
- 1977 - 1985 Heisenberg Fellow of the DFG, research in Leuven (B), Galveston (USA), Mexico City, Baltimore (USA)
- 1972 - 1977 Ass. Prof. Univ. Saarland, Homburg, Germany
- 1966 - 1972 MD. Physiology, Fac. Med. Univ. Leipzig, Germany;
Fields of Scholarship
- Electrophsiology of single cardiac and smooth muscle cells
- Excitation-contraction-coupling
- Ca channels
- K channels
- Ca imaging
- Mitochondria
- Stretch activated channels
Honours and Awards
- 1977 Heisenberg Fellowship
- 1997 Max-Planck-Forschungspreis (together with Fred Fay)
- 1998 Member of Leopoldina, German Academy of Sciences
