Franz Hofmann, MD#

Institutional Affiliation:

Chairman and Professor
Institut für Pharmakologie und Toxikologie,
Medical Faculty, Technische Universität,
D-80802 München, Germany

Education:

• 1962 - 1970 Medical School and Internship at Univ. Heidelberg, Univ. München and FU Berlin
• M.D. Thesis 1966 - 1968 "Über die Wirkung einiger Colchizinderivate auf den Mäuse-Ascites-Tumor“ (Adviser Professor Lettre, Heidelberg)
• Examina 1968 Medical State Examen in Heidelberg
• Postdoctoral Fellow 1970 - 1972 Pharmakologisches Institut, Medical Faculty, Universität Heidelberg (Prof. Dr. F. Gross)
• 1973 - 1975 Dept. Biological Chemistry, Med. School, Univ. California, Davis, USA (Prof. Dr. E. G. Krebs)
• 1975 - 1980 Pharmakologisches Institut, Medical Faculty, Universität Heidelberg (Prof. Dr. F. Gross)

Academic Positions

• 1981 - 1985 Associate Professor, Pharmakologisches Institut der Universität Heidelberg
• 1985 - 1990 Chairman and Professor, Physiologische Chemie, Medical Faculty, Universität des Saarlandes, Homburg-Saar
• 1990-2008 Chairman and Professor, Institut für Pharmakologie und Toxikologie, Medical Faculty der Technischen Universität München
• 1995 – 2004 Acting Chairman, Institut für Physiologische Chemie, Medical Faculty der Technischen Universität München
• Since October 2008 retired Professor at Institut für Pharmakologie und Toxikologie, Medical Faculty der Technischen Universität München

Honours

• 1970 – 1973 Stipend of the Paul-Martini Stiftung
• 1973- 1975 DFG Research Stipend
• 1998 Professor Honoris Causa, Tongji Medical University Wuhan
• 2001 full member of the Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaft
• 2002 full member German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina; National Academy
• 2002 Aschoff Award of the Medical Society Freiburg
• 2002 Max-Planck-Research Award
• 2003 Feldberg Award
• 2003 full member of the Academia Europaea
• 2004 Professor Honoris Causa, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• 2004 Officer in the Order of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 2006 Harry van Dyke Award, Columbia Univ, New York
• 2008 Bavarian Order of Merit

Academic Positions

• Member of the Medical Faculty Board (“Research-Dean”) 2003-2007
• Chairman of the Kuratorium of the University Leipzig 2002 – 2008
• Kurator of the University Leipzig, 2000 – 2008
• Obmann Section Pharmacology and Senator of Section Physiology and Pharmacology of Leopoldina 2007 –
• Director of the Feldberg Foundation 2007 -

Research Funding

• Grants by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, BMBF, Fond der Chemie, VW-Stiftung, EU
• 1986-1989 Vice-Chairman and 1990 Chairman of the Collaborative Research Center (Sonderforschungsbereich 246) „Proteinphosphorylierung und intrazelluläre Kontrolle von Membranprozessen“; Homburg-Saar
• 1995 - 2007 Chairman of the Collaborative Research Center (Sonderforschungsbereich 391) „Mechanismen der schnellen Zellaktivierung“; München
• 2007 – 2010 Chairman of the DFG Research Unit FOR 923

Awards

• Paul-Martini-Stipendiat for Clinical Pharmacology
• DFG-Research Stipendiat

Editorial Board Member

• Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology 1979 - 1981 Assistant Managing Editor
• European J. Biochemistry 1980 - 1988
• Biochimica Biophysica Acta 1988-1995
• Naunyn-Schmiedeberg´s Archives of Pharmacology 1991-2002
• Journal of Biological Chemistry 1998-2003
• Biological Chemistry 2001-2007
• Acta Pharmacologica Sinica 2003-
• Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry 2006 -
• Journal of Clinical Investigation, Consulting Editor, 2002- 2008
• Scientific reviewer der Section „Clinical Pharmacology“ in German edition of Fauci „Harrison´s Principles of Internal Medicine“ 14th edition
• Editor: Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology 2001-
• Editor in Chief: Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology 2007-
• Editor: Forth, Henschler, Rummel “Allgemeine und spezielle Pharmakologie und Toxikologie” 9th and 10th edition

Grant Board Member

• Sanderstiftung 1991-
• Human Frontier Science Program 1995-1997
• Kommission für Klinische Forschung; Klinikum rechts der Isar (Chair) 1996 - 2007
• Fachkollegium Neurowissenschaften DFG 2004 – 2007

Advisory Board (Beirat)

• Ethik-Kommision der Fakultät für Medizin der TU München 1994 - 2009
• Forschungsverbund der Universität Halle-Wittenberg „Myokard-Hypertrophie: Mechanismen und Risiken und Tumorbiologie“ Chairman of the Advisory Board 1991-2000
• Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Klinische Forschung (IZKF) Ulm „Molekulare Pathomechanismen entzündlicher, degenerativer und maligner Erkrankungen: Ansätze einer verbesserten Krankheitserkennung und-behandlung“ Vice-Chairman of the Advisory Board 1995-2005
• Vice Chairman NC-IUPHAR 2002 –2006
• Zentrum für Molekularbiologische Medizin der Universität Köln (ZMMK) Chairman of the External Advisory Board 1995 - 2007
• Member of the Scientific Board of “Zentrum für Molekulare Neurobiologie" Hamburg (ZMNH) 2002-2007
• Member of the Scientific Board of Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Neurowissenschaften (IZN) der University Frankfurt (Main) 2006 –
• 2008 Member of the “Selection Committees” for the Academy of Sciences of Albania

Organization of Scientific Meetings

• 1986-1990 Chairman Studiengruppe Biochemische Pharmakologie und Toxikologie der GBCh
• 1992 - 1999 Member of the Scientific Committee of European Symposium on Hormones and Cell Regulation, St.Odile, France
• Member of the National Organization Committee and Chairman of the Programme Committee of the
• XIIIth International Congress of Pharmacology München, 1998
• Member of the International Advisory Boards of the XIVth International Congress of Pharmacology, San Francisco, 2002
• Member of the Organization Committee of the “International Conference on cGMP” 2003; 2005; 2007; 2009