University professors and leadership

Univ.-Prof. Dr.--Fischer-Dietmar
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Dietmar Fischer

Director of the Center for Pharmacology and the Institutes I (acting) and II for Pharmacology


Prof. Fischer was born in Marburg in 1971. After studying pharmacy at the Philipps University of Marburg, he received his license to practice as a pharmacist in 1997. He then studied medicine at the Westphalian-Wilhelms University of Münster, where he obtained his doctorate (Ph.D.) in 2000 with distinction "summa cum laude".

From 2001 to 2004, Prof. Fischer was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School (Department of Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital) and followed a call for a junior professorship in Experimental Neurology (W1) at Ulm University Hospital. In 2010 and 2011, Prof. Fischer received three further calls (W2) to the University Hospital Düsseldorf, University Hospital Regensburg, and University Hospital Würzburg and became a University Professor of Experimental Neurology in Düsseldorf. After further calls to Philipps University Marburg (2014) and Ruhr University Bochum (2017), he took over as the Chair of Cell Physiology (W3) at the Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology in Bochum. Prof. Fischer received several awards for his scientific work in therapy development to promote nerve regeneration, such as the MSD-Chibret-Millennium Award in the field of ophthalmology and the research award of the German Foundation for Paraplegia.

Since 2022, Prof. Fischer has been the Director of the Center for Pharmacology at the University Hospital Cologne and is a member of the Drug Commission of the hospital.


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Univ.-Prof. Dr.--Fuhr-Uwe
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Uwe Fuhr

Group leader Clinical Pharmacology

Publications


Prof. Uwe Fuhr was born in Saarbrücken in 1960. After completing his civilian service, he studied medicine at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and received his medical license in 1987. From 1987 to 1996, he worked as a research associate at the Institute for Clinical Pharmacology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University and in 1996 at the Institute for Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Research in Nürnberg.

In 1989, he completed his doctorate with a thesis on pneumoconiosis in dental technicians. After being recognized as a specialist in clinical pharmacology in 1993, Prof. Fuhr received his habilitation in this field in 1995. Prof. Fuhr's work has received several awards, including the "Friedrich Hartmut Dost Memorial Prize 1994 of the German Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapy".
In 1996, Prof. Fuhr was appointed to his current position as Professor of Pharmacology / Focus Clinical Pharmacology at the Institute (later Center) of Pharmacology of the Medical Faculty of the University of Cologne and took over the acting leadership of the Center from 2015 to 2022. In 2006, he co-founded the full-service contract research organization "ITECRA" (Institute for Tailored Early Clinical Research and Advice GmbH & Co. KG), where he served as a part-time scientific advisor until 2012.

Prof. Fuhr is the head of the Drug Commission of the University Hospital Cologne and deputy chairman of the Ethics Committee of the Medical Faculty of the University of Cologne and was for many years an elected member of the Narrow Faculty in the Faculty Council. He hosted several national and international congresses and served as "Managing Editor" and "Reviews Editor" of the "European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology".


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Univ.-Prof. Dr.--Schömig-Edgar
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Edgar Schömig

Director of the Institute I for Pharmacology (on leave)
Head of Therapeutic Drug Monitoring (on leave)


Prof. Edgar Schömig was born in Würzburg in 1960. After studying medicine at the Julius-Maximilians University of Würzburg and practical training at the University Hospital of Würzburg and the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, he received his medical license in 1986. Also, in 1986, he received his doctorate with the distinction "summa cum laude" as Dr. med., and in 1991 his habilitation in pharmacology and toxicology.

From 1986 to 1991, Prof. Schömig worked as a scientific assistant and from 1991 to 1994 as a private lecturer at the Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Würzburg. Several appointments to university professorships in pharmacology followed. From 1994 to 2000, Prof. Schömig held a university professorship in General Pharmacology at the Rupprecht-Karls University Hospital in Heidelberg. Prof. Schömig is a recipient of the Fritz Külz Prize (1986) and the Galenus von Pergamon Prize (1995).

Since 2001, Prof. Schömig has been Director of the Institute of Pharmacology at the University Hospital of Cologne. From 2001 to 2006, he chaired the Drug Commission of the hospital. From 2004 to 2006, Prof. Schömig was elected Dean of the Medical Faculty. He is a member of the Ethics Committee of the Medical Faculty of the University of Cologne. Since 2006, Prof. Schömig has been Chairman of the Board and Medical Director of the University Hospital Cologne.


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Univ.-Prof. Dr.--Herzig-Stefan
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Stefan Herzig

(in retirement)


Akademischer Werdegang
2001 - 2003Postgraduate studies Master of Medical Education, University of Bern, Switzerland
1992Habilitation in Pharmacology
1988 - 1989DFG fellow, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
1981 - 1984Doctorate under Prof. Dr. Heinz Lüllmann, CAU Kiel, Germany
1979 - 1983Medical studies, CAU Kiel
1977 - 1979Medical studies, Philipps University, Marburg, Germany
Professional career
Beruflicher Werdegang
seit 2018 President of the Cologne University of Technology
2015 - 2018Prorector for Teaching and Studies, UzK (W3, full-time)
seit 2011 Prorector for Teaching and Studies, UzK (part-time)
2006 - 2015Acting Head, Institute of Pharmacology, UzK
seit 1995Professor of Pharmacology (C3), UzK (currently on leave)
1992 - 1995Senior Assistant (C2) and Senior Physician, Institute of Pharmacology, Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel (CAU)
1985Staff Physician, Naval Air Wing 5, Kiel-Holtenau
1984 - 1991Research Assistant, Pharmacology, CAU
Mitgliedschaften
seit 2003Society for Medical Education (GMA)
seit 1998Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE)
1996 - 2018German Society of Cardiology (DGK)
seit 1992Working Group Cardiac Cellular Electrophysiology (EWGCCE) of the ESC
seit 1985German Society for Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology (DGPT)
Ehrenämter und Gremientätigkeiten
2015 - 2018Chairman of the Supervisory Board, University of Cologne Executive School gGmbH
2015 - 2018Spokesperson of the AG Prorektoren in the Landesrektorenkonferenz NRW (State Rectors' Conference of North Rhine-Westphalia)
seit 2014Member of the Board of Trustees of the Central Library of Medicine (ZB MED)
2012 - 2018Board of Trustees of the Mercator Institute for Language Support at the UzK
2012 - 2017Deputy Board of Directors, Landesakademie für Med. Ausbildung NRW e.V.
2011 - 2018Chair of the Senate Commission for Teaching and Studies, the Commission for Information and Communication, and the Student Support Fund, UzK
2009 - 2015Work package responsible for the National Competence Based Learning Objectives Catalogue (NKLM) of the Medical Faculty Association and GMA.
2008 - 2018Member of the Ethics Committee of the University Hospital of Cologne
2007 - 2011Chairman of the Drug Commission of the University Hospital Cologne
2003 - 2007Dean of Studies of the Medical Faculty Cologne
2003 - 2006Member of the Board of the Society for Medical Education (GMA)
1997 - 2002Member of the Narrow Medical Faculty of the UzK
1996 - 2012Member of the Study Committee of the Medical Faculty Cologne
1991 - 1995Member of the Faculty Convention of Medicine at Kiel University
Herausgeberschaften und wissenschaftliche Kongresse
Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift (Section Editor "Der Arzneistoff"), until 2017
German-Israeli Foundation (Advisor, Section Pharmacology)
GMS Journal of Medical Education (Associate Editor)
Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology (Editor), until 2016
Conference President, Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Education in Cologne, 2006
Conference President, 33rd Annual Meeting of EWGCCE in Cologne, 2009

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