Gastrointestinal Physiology

BIOGRAPHY

1965-1972 Study of Medicine, Freie Universitaet Berlin and Univ. Wuerzburg
1973 Physician State Diploma
1975-1980 Postgraduate, Inst. of Clinical Physiology, FU Berlin
1978 Doctor of Medicine, Thesis on intestinal transport
1979-1980 Max Kade scholarship, Dept. Physiology & Cell Biology
(Prof. S.G. Schultz) University of Texas, Houston, TX, USA
1980-1986 Research Fellow, Inst. Clin. Physiology
1986 Habilitation for Physiology and Clinical Physiology
1987-1994 Senior Fellow, Inst. Clin. Physiology
1991 Extraordinary Professor
1993-2003 Chair of the Benjamin Franklin Med. Sch. research committee
2003-2006 Vice-chair of the Charité research committee
1993 Medical specialist in Physiology (Facharzt)
since 1998 Secretary general, European Intestinal Transport Group (EITG)
2001 Appointment as Full Professor of Clinical Physiology
since 2002 Director of the Institute of Clinical Physiology, Charité Berlin
since 2008 Liaison officer of the German Research Fdn. (DFG) for the Charité
2006-2012 Coordinator of DFG Research Unit "Molecular structure and
function of the tight junction" (FOR 721)