Personen

Medical/Professional background

since 2025

Medical Director of the Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacoepidemiology, University Hospital Heidelberg

2019 – 2024

University Professor and Director of the Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, RWTH Aachen University Hospital

2012 – 2019

Vice president and head of the division of research, of the Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical devices, Bonn, Germany

2006 – 2012

Professor of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Natural Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Ulm, Germany

2004 – 2006

Scientific postdoctoral fellow, Department of Pharmacology, University of Cologne, Köln, Germany (Prof. E. Schömig)

1999 – 2003

Training in Clinical Pharmacology, Charité University Medicine, Berlin, Germany (Prof. I. Roots)

1997 – 1999

Residency in Psychiatry, Psychiatric University Hospital, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany (Prof. H. Helmchen)

Scientific background

since 2025

Professor of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Heidelberg

2019

Professor of Molecular Pharmacology, RWTH Aachen

2006

Professor of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Ulm

2004

Private Dozent (Habilitation), Charité University Medicine, Berlin, Germany

2003

Board Certification Clinical Pharmacology

1997

Doctor of Medicine, University of Frankfurt/Main Medical School, Frankfurt, Germany

1991 – 1997

Human Medicine, University of Frankfurt/Main Medical school

Commendations

2010

Recipient of the Leon I. Goldberg Young Investigator Award 2010 of the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (ASCPT)

2009

Visiting Professor at the Office of Clinical Pharmacology, FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Washington DC, US (Award for three months visit)

2009

Recipient of the Utrecht Award for Pharmaceutical Research 2009

2003

American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeuics Washington "Presidential Trainee Award”

Offices and posts held

since 2023

Appointed by the BMBF to represent Germany in the Working Group Pharmacogenetics  of the 1+Million Genomes Project of the European Commission

since 2021

 Elected member of the Executive Committee of the European Association of Clinical Pharmacology, Treasurer of the EACPT (EACPT)

2019 – 2022

Appointed member of the Genetic Diagnostics Commission (GEKO)

since 2019

Member of the working group “Wissen generieren durch Vernetzung von Forschung und Versorgung” (Generating knowledge by connecting research and care), Nationale Dekade gegen Krebs, BMBF

since 2004

Associate Member of the Drug Commission of the German Medical Association, Berlin

Major Working Areas

Pharmacogenetics and Pharmacogenomics

Personalized Drug Therapy / Precision Dosing

Polypharmacy

Drug Interactions

Pharmacology of Ageing