Irene Schulz-Hofer#
| Membership Number: | 769 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 1990 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2007 Retirement
- 1991 - 2006 Full Professor, Physiology, University of the Saarland, Homburg, Saar/Germany
- 1967 - 1991 Research postition at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysics and Lecturer at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University in Frankfurt(Main)/Germany
- 1966 - 1967 Postdoctoral fellow at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md./USA
- 1966 Thesis for medical doctor (Ph.D.) at the Free University in Berlin/Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Exocrine glands (exocrine pancreas, salivary glands)
- Pancreatic duct cells
- Bicarbonate secretion
- Pancreatic acinar cells
- Exocrine secretion
- Signal transduction
- Calcium signaling
- Intracellular Ca2+ handling
- Ca2+ transport mechanisms
- Intracellular Ca2+ pools
- Intracellular vesicle transport
- Zymogen granules
- Protein phosphorylation
- Protein-protein interaction
- Cellular mechanisms in pancreatitis
Honours and Awards
- 2008 Class spokesperson of Class II in the Leopoldina
- 2007 Spokesperson and Vice Senator of the section “Physiology“ in the Leopoldina
- 2005 Head of Section Physiology, “Gastrointestinal Physiology“ in the Faculty1000
- 1990 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 1981 Award of the Rhein-Main-Society for Gastroenterology
