Martin Lohse - Biography#
Martin Lohse studied medicine and philosophy in Göttingen, London and Paris. He conducted his doctoral research in neurobiology between 1978 and 1981 at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen followed by postdoctoral research at Pharmacological Institutes in Bonn and Heidelberg. He finished his habilitation for pharmacology and toxicology at the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg in 1988. Between 1988 and 1990 he went as a Research Associate to Duke University Durham, USA and worked with the 2012 Nobel prize winner R. Lefkowitz. Martin Lohse was group leader at the Gene Center of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich and of the Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried, from 1990 until 1993. Since 1993 he is Professor for Pharmacology and Toxicology at the Julius-Maximilians-University Wuerzburg.
Martin Lohse was initiator of the Collaborative Research Center 478 "Regulatory Membrane Proteins". He is chairman of the Rudolf-Virchow-Center for Experimental Biomedicine which is a German Research Foundation center. In 2003 he became Executive Director for Graduate Schools of the Julius-Maximilians-University Wuerzburg.
His work is honord by numerous awards amongst them the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Prize of the German Research Foundation and the Ernst-Jung-Prize for Medicine. He is vice president of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, member of the North-Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.
