Martin J. Lohse

Professor Martin Lohse is Chair of the Board and Scientific Director of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association. Professor Lohse is also a speaker of the Executive Board ofthe Berlin Institute of Health (BIH) since August 1st, 2017. Martin Lohse studied medicine and philosophy at the Universities Göttingen, London and Paris. He performed his PhD studies in neurobiology at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen. Further stages in his career took him to Bonn, Heidelberg, Duke University in Durham (USA) and the Gene Center of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich and the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry Martinsried (Munich). In 1993 he became Professor for Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Würzburg. His research focuses on the mechanisms of cellular signaling and drug effects on receptors. He has received multiple awards for his scientific achievements, among them the Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Ernst Jung Prize for Medicine, as well as two grants by the European Research Council. Professor Lohse is Vice President of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. From 2009 to 2015, he was Vice President for Research at the University of Würzburg. Between 2003 and 2008, Martin Lohse was a member of the German Ethics Council. He has founded three biotechnology companies and was the Founding Speaker of the Rudolf Virchow Center, the DFG Research Center for Experimental Biomedicine of the University of Würzburg as well as the Founding Director of the Graduate School of the University of Würzburg.