Pharmaceutical Biology

Prof. Dr. Lutz Heide

Work History

since 1994

Full Professor of Pharmaceutical Biology, University of Tübingen, Germany

1/14 - 12/15 Professor at the Pharmacy Department, College of Medicine, University of Malawi. Contracted by GIZ/CIM, Germany, on official leave from the University of Tübingen.

10/10 - 3/11

Sabbatical at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

3/05 - 9/05

Sabbatical at the Salk Institute of Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, USA

3/99 - 9/99

Sabbatical at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, and at the University of Cincinnati, USA

4/96 - 9/96

Sabbatical at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA

1991 - 1994

Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Biology, University of Freiburg, Germany

1990 - 1991

Heisenberg Scholar of the German Research Foundation (DFG)

1987 - 1990

Assistant Professor, Institute of Pharmaceutical Biology, University of Bonn, Germany

1985 - 1987

Postdoctoral Fellow (JSPS/Humboldt Scholar), Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University, Japan

3/85 - 5/85

Consultant for the UNICEF/WHO Action Programme on Essential Drugs, Somalia, Africa

1982 - 1985

Senior Pharmacist Advisor, Refugee Health Unit, Ministry of Health, Somalia, Africa

1978 - 1981

Teaching Assistant, Institute of Pharmaceutical Biology, University of Münster, Germany

1977 - 1978

Pharmacy trainee in a community pharmacy, Salzgitter, Germany

Awards and Honours

1997, 2004 and 2012

PHÖNIX Prize of Pharmaceutical Sciences

1992

Alfried Krupp-Award for Young University Professors (850.000 DM)

1990

Heisenberg Scholarship of the German Research Foundation (DFG)

1989

Egon Stahl-Prize of the Society of Medicinal Plant Research

1985

First Grade Honour Certificate of the Ministry of Health, Somalia

1984

Jephcott-White Waller Prize, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

Education

1990

Habilitation (= highest academic degree in Germany) for Pharmaceutical Biology, University of Bonn, Germany

1981

PhD in Pharmaceutical Biology, University of Münster; Germany; passed with distinction (summa cum laude)

1978

Registered Pharmacist, State of Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

1977

University graduation in pharmacy, University of Münster, Germany

Further Education

1999

Summer Courses in Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

1994

Diploma Course in Medical Education, University of Dundee, Scotland, UK

1984

Certificate in Tropical Community Medicine and Health, Liverpool, UK

Academic Service and Scientific Committees (Selected)

   
since 2016 Managing Director, Pharmaceutical Institute, University of Tübingen, Germany
since 2016 Responsible organizer of the course “Pharmacy in Development Cooperation and Disaster Relief” at the University of Tübingen
since 2015 Member of the selection committee for Georg Forster Research Fellowships, Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation, Germany

since 2011

Member of the Board of Trustees (Stiftungsrat) of the Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Halle, Germany

2010 - 2013

Elected member of the Steering Committee (Fakultätsrat) of the Faculty of Science, Tübingen University

2004 - 2013

Member of the Selection Committee of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for the Asia/Pacific Region

2011 - 2012

Member of the International Evaluation Committee of the School of Life Sciences & Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

2008 - 2009

Member of the International Advisory Board of the Fifteenth International Symposium on the Biology of Actinomycetes (ISBA'15), Shanghai, China

2007 - 2008

Member of the International Scientific Committee of the International Biotechnology Symposium, Dalian, China

1998 - 2001

Managing Director, Pharmaceutical Institute, University of Tübingen, Germany

since 1997 Responsible organizer of the Certificate Course “Clinical Pharmacy” at the University of Tübingen

1995 - 1998

Dean of Studies, Pharmaceutical Institute, University of Tübingen, Germany

1997 - 1999

Member of the national committee for the revision of the pharmacy curriculum at the German Ministry of Health

Research Grants (Selected)

Areas of Research

Personal Details

Date of birth: 16. May 1955, Salzgitter, Germany
Marital status: Married, two sons