!!Franz Hofmann, MD
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__Institutional Affiliation:__
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Chairman and Professor\\
Institut für Pharmakologie und Toxikologie,\\
Medical Faculty, Technische Universität,\\
D-80802 München, Germany 
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__Education:__
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*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)
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__Academic Positions __	
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*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
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__Honours	__
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*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
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__Academic Positions__
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*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 - 
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__Research Funding__
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*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
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__Awards__
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*Paul-Martini-Stipendiat for Clinical Pharmacology
*DFG-Research Stipendiat
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__Editorial Board Member__
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*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
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__Grant Board Member__
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*Sanderstiftung 1991-
*Human Frontier Science Program 1995-1997
*Kommission für Klinische Forschung; Klinikum rechts der Isar (Chair) 1996 - 2007
*Fachkollegium Neurowissenschaften DFG 2004 – 2007
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__Advisory Board (Beirat)__
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*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 
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__Organization of Scientific Meetings__
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*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