Wolfgang Löscher#


Wolfgang Löscher
Membership Number:6908
Membership type:ORDINARY
Section:CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE
Affiliated section(s):PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE
Elected:2024
Main Country of Residence:GERMANY
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ORCID:0000-0002-9648-8973





Present and Previous Positions
  • 2023 Head, Translational Neuropharmacology Lab, NIFE, Department of Experimental Otology of the ENT Clinics, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
  • 2022 Head, Translational Epilepsy Research Group, Hannover, Germany, and Emeritus Professor, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Germany
  • 2019 - 2022: Research Professor, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Germany
  • 1987 - 2019: Director, Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmacy, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Germany
  • 2002 - 2022 Head, Center of Systems Neuroscience, Hannover, Germany
  • 1986 - 1987 Research Scientist, Institute of Neuropsychopharmacology, Schering AG, Berlin, Germany
  • 1982 - 1986 Interim Professorship, Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Free University of Berlin
  • 1979 Visiting Scientist, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD
  • 1978 Visiting Scientist, Leo Pharmaceuticals, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • 1975 - 1982 Postdoctoral Fellow and, thereafter, Assistant Professor, Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Free University of Berlin

Fields of Scholarship
  • Prevention of epilepsy after brain injury
  • Mechanisms of drug resistance in epilepsy
  • Mechanisms of epileptogenesis
  • The physiology and pathophysiology of drug efflux transporters
  • Novel treatments for neonatal seizures and their long-term sequelae
  • Development of new more effective anti-seizure medications
  • The blood-brain barrier in the healthy and diseased brain

Honours and Awards
  • 2021 Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher
  • 2018 Lifetime Accelerator Award of the Epilepsy Foundation of America
  • 2014 European Epileptology Award of the International League against Epilepsy (ILAE) in recognition of outstanding contributions to European epileptology
  • 2011 Ambassador for Epilepsy Award of the ILAE in recognition of outstanding personal contribution to international activities advancing the cause of epilepsy
  • 2006 Epilepsy Research Recognition Award for Basic Science of the American Epilepsy Society (AES) for research into the understanding of drug resistance
  • 2001 Epilepsy Research Award of the ILAE for outstanding contributions in pharmacologic development of antiepileptic drugs
  • 2000 Election to the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
  • 1993 The Michael Prize for contributions to scientific research promoting further development in epileptology
  • 1981 The Alfred Hauptmann Award for studies of GABA and the epilepsies

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