Urs Meyer#
Membership Number: | 1293 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
Elected: | 1992 |
Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
Homepage(s): | https://www.ursmeyer.biozentrum.unibas.ch/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2008 - 2008 Sabbatical Professor, Office of Clinical Pharmacology, Center of Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Silver Spring, MD, USA
- 2008 Professor emeritus of Pharmacology, University of Basel
- 1993 - 1995 Acting Chairman, Biozentrum of the University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- 1992 - 1993 Visiting Professor, Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
- 1983 -2008 Professor of Pharmacology (Ordinarius), University of Basel Medical School, and Chairman, Division of Pharmacology/Neurobiology, Biozentrum of the University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- 1976 - 1983 Associate Professor of Clinical Pharmacology (Extraordinarius), University of Zürich Medical School, Zürich, Switzerland
- 1974 - 1983 Chief, Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Departments of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Zürich Medical School, University Hospital, Zürich, Switzerland
- 1972 - 1974 Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology. Div. of Clinical Pharma-cology, Dept. of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, USA
- 1971 - 1972 Instructor of Medicine and Pharmacology, Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, University of California, Medical Center, San Francisco, U.S.A.
- 1970 - 1971 United States Public Health Service Special Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Hepatology, Departments of Internal Medicine and of Biochemistry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, Texas, U.S.A
- 1968 - 1969 Resident - Internal Medicine, University of California Hospitals, San Francisco, California
- 1967 - 1968 Internship - Straight Medicine, University of California San Francisco Medical Center (UCSF), San Francisco, California. Lloyd H. Smith, Jr., Head of the Department of Medicine
- 1965 - 1967 Research Assistant, Metabolic Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Zürich Medical School. Work was in the field of adipose tissue metabolism under the direction of E. Rudolf Froesch
- 1969 - 1970 United States Public Health Service Special Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine University of California San Francisco Medical Center, San Francisco, California
Fields of Scholarship
- Personalized medicine
- Pharmacogenomics
Honours and Awards
- 1971 - 1974 Faculty Development Award in Clinical Pharmacology, Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association Foundation
- 1974 Cloetta-Award 1974 for Medical Research
- 1978 Award of the Anita Saurer Foundation, 1978
- 1990 William D. Stubenboard Visiting Professorships, Cornell Medical Center, New York
- 1991 Rawls-Palmer Award for Progress in Medicine (with Frank J. Gonzalez) American Society for Clinicical Pharmacology and Therapeutics
- 1993 Featured on Cover Page of Cancer Research for work on Acetyltransferase Genes and Cancer
- 1993 The Sterling Drug Visiting Professor, University of Oregon School of Medicine, Portland, Oregon
- 1993 Elected Member, Academia Europaea
- 1994 The Ariëns Lecture of the Dutch Pharmacological Soc., Leiden
- 1994 The Sandoz Lecture in Clinical Pharmacology, USU, Bethesda, MD, USA
- 1997 Council, Academia Europaea
- 1998 Medeval Distinguished Lecturer, University of Manchester, U.K.
- 1999 Werner Kalow Annual Award Lectureship in Pharmacogenetics, Toronto, Canada
- 2000 Ad hoc member of the Council of the NIGMS, NIH, Bethesda, USA
- 2001 Elected to membership, Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences
- 2001 Listed on ISI's Highly Cited Researcher's database
- 2002 External Scientific Panel-NIH Pharmacogenetics Research Network
- 2003 Vice-President, Academia Europaea
- 2004 Robert Pfleger-Forschungspreis 2004
- 2004 RT Williams Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award” International Society for the Study of Xenobiotics” ISSX in Bethesda, MD, USA