University professors and leadership

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.

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".