Short CV of Harald Reuter#

Education:#

• Elementary Schools and Gymnasium Düsseldorf and Aachen (Germany) (1940-1954)
• Medical studies; Universities of Freiburg (Germany) and Innsbruck (Austria) (1954-1959)
• Dissertation thesis (M.D.); University of Mainz (Germany)(1960)
• Habilitation thesis; University of Mainz (1965)
  

Positions held:#

• Assistant; Department of Pharmacology, University of Mainz (1960-1965)
• Privatdozent (same Department) (1965-1969)
• Assistant Professor; University of Minnesota/Mayo Clinic, USA (1967-1968)
• Professor of Pharmacology; Department of Pharmacology, University of Bern, Switzerland (1969-1999)
• Chairman; same Department (1972-1999)
• Dean of the Medical Faculty; University of Bern (1983-1985)
• Professor emeritus of Pharmacology, University of Bern (1999- )

Fellowships and Visiting Professorships:#

• Fellowship (Habilitationsstipendium) of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (1963-1965)
• Visiting Professor, Department of Physiology,Yale University, New Haven, Conn.(USA) (1971, 1978-1979 and 1986)
• Visiting Professor, British Council, Great Britain (1974)
• Visiting Professor, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (1978)
• Visiting Professor, Biozentrum, University of Basel (1986-1987)
• Visiting Professor, Peking University,China (1987)
• Visiting Professor (sabbaticals, collaborations) Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA (1992-2002)
  

Main scientific interests:#

• Regulation, modulation and molecular structure of ion channels (discovery of calcium-channels in the heart);
• discovery and function of cardiac sodium/calcium exchange in the heart; excitation-contraction coupling in the heart;
• calcium and signal transduction; ion channel expression in PC12 cells and Xenopus oocytes;
• presynaptic vesicle cycling in hippocampal neurons
  

Memberships:#

• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Pharmakologie und Toxikologie; The Physiological Society (G.B.);
• American Physiological Society; Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Aerzte;
• Gesellschaft für Innere Medizin; Cardiac Muscle Society (USA, Honorary Member);
• ÜSchweizerische Gesellschaft für Experimentelle Pharmakologie (Honorary Member);
  

Editorial Boards:#

• Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Arch. Pharmacol. (1971-1992); CirculationRes.(1972-1979);
• J.Physiol. (Lond.)(1977-); J. Cell. Mol. Cardiol. (1986-1990); J.Membrane Biol.(1986-1998); News
• Physiol. Sci.(1988-1994); Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B (1990-1994); Rev. Physiol. Biochem.Pharmacol. (1991-1996)
  

Awards, Prizes, Honours:#

• "Award for Outstanding Research" of the International Society for Heart Research (1984)
• Drew Award in Biomedical Research, Drew University, Madison N.I. (USA)(1984)
• Marcel Benoist-Prize of the Swiss Government (1984)
• Schmiedeberg-Medal of the GermanSociety of Pharmacology and Toxicology(1987)
• Jonathan Magnes-Prize, Hebrew University, (1988)
• K.S.Cole Award, Biophysical Society, USA (1993)
• Ernst Jung-Medal for Medicine in Gold, Jung-Foundation for Science and Research, Hamburg (2002)(Life-time Achievement Award)
• Discussion Meeting honoring "Harald Reuter for his Remarkable Career in Science", Biophysical Society (USA) (2008)
  

Scientific Academies (elected Member):#

• Academia Europaea (1989)
• Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher, Leopoldina" (1993)
• Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences (1995)
• Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea, Salzburg (1997)
• National Academy of Sciences, USA, Foreign Member (1997)
• Académie Royal de Médecine de Belgique, ForeignMember(2001)
  

Honorary Lectures:#

• Nahum Lecture, Yale University(1978)
• Hans Hecht Lecture, University of Chicago(1978)
• McDowall Lecture, King's College, University of London (1986)
• Jonathan Magnes Memorial Lecture, Hebrew University, Jerusalem (1988)
• William D. Stubenbord Lecture, Cornell University Medical College, New York (1988)
• D. Nachshen Lecture, University of Maryland, Baltimore (1991)
• A.J.Carlson Memorial Lecture, University of Chicago(1997)
  

Public Services:#

• Member of the Scientific Council on Drug Regulation in Switzerland, 1979-1988
• AIDS Coordinator of the Canton of Bern, 1985-1986
• Member of the Scientific Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation, 1988-799
• Member of the Advisory Board of the"Department of Clinical Research", Univertity of Basel, 1988-1994
• Member and Chairman of the Advisory Board of the "Biocenter" University of Basel, 1993-2003
• Member and Chairman of the Swiss Foundation for medical-biological Stipends" 1994-2008
• Chairman of the "Committee on Human Rights" of the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences 1998-present
• Chairman of the Search Committee for a Director of the Friedrich Miescher-Institute, Basel 2001-2003
• Member of the Council and Executive Committee of the "Israeli-Palestinian Science Organization"(IPSO), 2004-present

(January 2009)