Peter Illes#
| Membership Number: | 2971 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2011 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~pharma/main/research/illes/illes.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2007- 2011 Emeritus Professor - Rudolf-Boehm-Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Leipzig, Germany
- 2009-2011 Visiting Professor - Department of Pharmacology, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
- 2009-2010 Founding Chief - Section of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Clinical Pharmacology, Asklepios Medical School, Hamburg, Germany
- 1995-2007 Full Professor and Chairman - RBI of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Leipzig, Germany
- 1999 6 months Sabbatical Term - Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Centre, Denver, CO, USA
- 1985-1995 Associate Professor - Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
- 1989-1990 6 moths Sabbatical Term - Department of Pharmacology, University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France
- 1980 7 month Research Associate - Department of Pharmacology, Loyola Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood ILL, USA
- 1981-1985 Assistant Professor - Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
- 1977-1978 10 months Fellowship of the Swedish Institute - Department of Pharmacology, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden
- 1978-1981 Max-Planck-Fellow - Max-Planck-Insitute for Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
- 1967-1987 Assistant Professor - Department of Pharmacology, Semmelweis University of Medicine, Budapest, Hungary
Fields of Scholarship
- Pharmacology
- PharmacologyPathophysiology
- PharmacologyNeurophysiology
- PharmacologyPurinergic neurotransmission
Honours and Awards
- 2004 Honorary Member of the Hungarian Pharmacological Society and recipient of the St. Georgy Award of the Hungarian Ministry for Higher Education, Hungary
- 2003 Award of the Institute of Pharmacology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland
- 2002 Carl-Reinhold-August-Wunderlich Award for the best clinical teacher at the Medical Faculty of the University of Leipzig
- 2000 Dr. honoris causa of the Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
- 1999 Honorary Lecture of the "Japanese Human Science Foundation", Tokyo, Japan
- 1992 Medal of the German Society for the Research on Pain
