Experimentelle Pharmakologie
Institut für Pharmazie
Auf der Morgenstelle 8
D-72076 Tübingen
Aktuelles
A decision on the next cGMP Conference in 2024 has been made!
March, 2023
For more information follow this link to the updated conference website.
Best Poster in the field of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology
89th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology (DGPT)
March, 2023
We would like to congratulate Selina Maier for winning this award for her poster entitled „Anti-hormonal therapy provokes BKCa channel-dependent K+ dynamcis in human und murine breast cancer cells “.
Lesmüller - Poster Prize of the German Pharmaceutical Society (DPhG)
September 2022
David Skrabak received the Dr. August und Dr. Anni Lesmüller- poster award of the German Pharmaceutical Society (DPhG). Congratulation on your work, David! For additional information please consult the press release issued by the DPhG.
10th International Conference on cGMP
June, 2022
Again, exciting, and largely unpublished basic science and clinical advances related to the cGMP pathway were presented and intensively discussed by >110 participants from all over the world in Augsburg. The organizers (Sheila Collins, Adrian Hobbs, Robert Lukowski, Michael Marletta, Peter Sandner and Harald Schmidt) are looking forward to seeing everyone again in 2024 at the “11th International Conference on cGMP"!
Latest news from the cGMP field
June, 2022
The British Journal of Pharmacology (BJP) published a themed issue on cGMP signalling in cell growth and survival. For more information about the recent developments in cGMP research please follow this link.
Best Poster in the field of ion channels and membrane transporters
88th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology (DGPT)
May, 2022
We would like to congratulate Dominic Gross for winning the "Best Poster Award" of the DGP & DGKliPha within the 7th German Pharm-ToxSummit. His work adresses „The role of Ca2+-activated potassium channels of intermediate conductance in breast cancer autophagy“.
The "10th International Conference on cGMP" will take place in Augsburg, Germany 2022
March, 2022
"cGMP 10" will thus take place in June 2022. Please visit us on the internet at http://www.cyclicgmp.net/ for more details. Abstract submission is possible until April 22. We are looking forward to receiving many contributions from the cGMP field of research.
Lesmüller - Poster Prize of the German Pharmaceutical Society (DPhG)
October 2021
Thomas Pham received the Dr. August und Dr. Anni Lesmüller- poster award of the German Pharmaceutical Society (DPhG). Congratulation on your work, Thomas! For additional information please consult the press release issued by the DPhG.
Welcome to our new lab member!
July, 2020
Helmut Bischof, a postdoctoral Humboldt Research Fellow, continues to carry out his innovative work on K+ sensors in the Lukowski lab.
The "10th International Conference on cGMP" will take place in Augsburg, Germany 2021
June, 2020
Please visit us on the internet at http://www.cyclicgmp.net/ for more details.
December, 2020 update
The conference was rescheduled to 2022 due to rising COVID-19 cases in Germany.
Second call for fully funded PhD positions
March, 2020
The University of Tübingen, Germany, has an open call for fully funded PhD positions starting January 11, 2021. We are looking for a highly motivated graduate to join our project on "cGMP signaling in cardiac injury and repair". This project is embedded in the DFG funded Research Training Group cGMP: From Bedside to Bench (GRK 2381). Applications from graduates that hold a master’s degree in Molecular Medicine, Biochemistry, Cell Biology, or Pharmaceutical Sciences as well as graduates of related and equivalent courses of studies are welcome. A strong interest in the molecular functions, dynamics and pathophysiological relevance of cGMP and its effectors and how they drive or prevent cardiac disease states is clearly preferred. Further information can be found on our GRK 2381 Website. The application deadline is July 15, 2020.
A decision on the next cGMP Conference in 2021 has been made!
January, 2020
For more information follow this link to the updated conference website.
Talk by Prof. Mark Hollywood
January, 2020
Institute of Pharmacy, Auf der Morgenstelle 8, 72076 Tübingen, Room 7E02, 2nd floor
On Wednesday, January 15th at 5:00 pm Mark Hollywood from the Smooth Muscle Research Centre Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland, will talk about "LINGO proteins - a new family of BK channel subunits".
Guests are cordially invited!
Call for Papers by the British Journal of Pharmacology
January, 2020
Themed issue on “cGMP Signalling in Cell Growth and Survival”, with Robert Lukowski and Robert Feil as Guest Editors. For more information, please visit the BJP website.
Merckle doctoral thesis award goes to Dr. Corinna J. Mohr
October, 2019
Congratulations to Corinna Mohr for receiving the Merckle doctoral thesis award and many thanks to Ludwig Merckle for sponsoring the prize. Well-deserved, Corinna!
Pharmacology & Therapeutics
July, 2019
Robert was being appointed as a Pharmacology & Therapeutics (P&T) Associate Editor. Together with Executive Editor Peter Holzer, Robert is going to identify possible authors and topics of interest to further increase the already outstanding profile of P&T (IF2018 = 9.396).
Promotion of Junior Researchers
July, 2019
Dr. Rebekka Ehinger has been awarded a start-up grant by the Promotion of Junior Researchers Program at the University of Tuebingen. Congratulations on your success in achieving this support for your research!
9th International Conference on cGMP
June, 2019
From June 14-16 the 9th International Conference on cGMP, which remains one of the leading meetings in the field, took place in Mainz / Budenheim. Again, exciting and largely unpublished basic science and clinical advances related to the cGMP pathway were presented and intensively discussed by >150 participants from all over the world.
The organizers are already looking forward to seeing all experts - as well as newcomers - in the cGMP field again in 2021. At this time we will "celebrate" the 10th anniversary of this sucessfull conference series on cGMP!
Open call for fully funded PhD positions
January, 2019
The University of Tübingen, Germany, has an open call for fully funded PhD positions starting July 1st, 2019. We are looking for highly motivated graduates to join our recently funded DFG Research Training Group cGMP: From Bedside to Bench (GRK 2381) aiming to gain critical new insights into cGMP’s role in cancer, cardiovascular diseases, and neurological disorders. Further information can be found on our GRK 2381 Website. The application deadline is March 3rd, 2019.
DFG Research Training Group 2381
cGMP: From Bedside to Bench
November, 2018
The DFG supports a new Research Training Group (RTG) entitled “cGMP: From Bedside to Bench”. The objective of RTG 2381 is to translate clinical experience with cGMP drugs “back” from “bedside to bench” allowing for critical new insights into cGMP’s role in cancer, cardiovascular diseases, and neurological disorders. Our fellows will be co-mentored by a principal investigator in Boston who works on a related topic and they will visit the partner laboratory for a period of three months. Please follow the link to the University´s News and the DFG Press Release for more information.
We recently updated the website for the next "Conference on cGMP" in Mainz, Germany 2019
October 25th, 2018
Please visit us on the internet at http://www.cyclicgmp.net/ for more details.
29th Ion Channel Meeting in Sète, France
September, 2018
Corinna Mohr received the “Best Oral Presentation Award” at the 29th Ion Channel Meeting in Sète, France. Congratulations to the winner and thanks to the expert jury of the Ion Channel Association! To learn more about the program of the meeting follow the link to the Ion Channel Association.
Danish Ion Channel Symposium 2018
May, 2018
Rebekka was awarded a prize for the best poster by a PhD student at the 15th Ion Channel Symposium organized by the Department of Biomedical Sciences in Copenhagen. Congratulations on this great success!
Working Group of Experimental Pharmacology
May, 2018
Robert was appointed Full Professor of Experimental Pharmacology in May 2018. His research focuses on the impact of cGMP pathway modulation and Ca2+/Na+-activated K+ channels in animal models of disease and their utility in drug discovery applications. Follow this link to the University´s Newsletter for more details.
ICEPHA Graduate Program
The second call for the ICEPHA Graduate Program will be opened soon. Launching of follow-up projects is planned for November 2018. Please find more detailed information at the ICEPHA Website (www.icepha.de).
Hot Topics in Signal Transduction & cGMP Research
The meeting is organized by the PhD students of the FOR 2060 Research Unit. It will take place on October 8-10, 2018 in the Alte Aula in Tübingen. Young scientists are particularly welcome to participate. Registration is free until August 2018.
More info at www.cyclic-gmp.de
Natalie received a State Graduate Scholarship (LGFG) for her PhD project
The support from the LGFG will allow Natalie to study the in vivo roles of CRP4 in proliferative vascular diseases. Congratulations on your early career sucess Natalie!
The "9th International Conference on cGMP" will take place in Mainz, Germany 2019
Please visit us on the internet at http://www.cyclicgmp.net/ for more details.
Merckle doctoral thesis award goes to Dr. Sandra Frankenreiter
Thursday, October 19th, 2017
Congratulations to Sandra Frankenreiter for receiving the Merckle doctoral thesis award and many thanks to Dr. Philipp Merckle for sponsoring the prize. Well-deserved, Sandra!
DFG FOR 2060 PhD student retreat
Our PhD students involved in the FOR 2060 research projects have organized a retreat at the University of Würzburg. They will meet (without their PIs) from November 24 - 26, 2017 to discuss ongoing work in our labs and to strenghten their individual scientific networks.
The web presence of the ICEPHA has been largely renewed
Please visit us at http://www.icepha.de/
CardiOvascular systems MEdicine (COME) Summer School
Anna Kuret and Natalie Zinn receive Travel Awards for the COME Summer School in Hamburg (September 2017). Well done Anna and Natalie!
Further information at http://www.summer-school-come.de
FOR 2060 Talk held by Prof. Dr. Jan Siemens (Pharmakologisches Institut, Universität Heidelberg)
Thursday, July 27th, 2017, 17:00 pm
The next International Conference on "cGMP" will be hosted in the city of Bamberg, Germany.
Please visit us on the internet at http://www.cyclicgmp.net/ for more details.
Next ICEPHA Graduate Program meeting
October, 2016
FOR 2060 Meeting “New Developments in Signal Transduction & cGMP Research”
January 18th - 20th, 2015
The meeting is organized by the PhD students of the FOR 2060 and will take place on January 18-20, 2015 in a former monastery in Rottenburg am Neckar, Germany. The program includes talks of projects leaders of the research group and external speakers from academia and industry as well as short presentations and posters from PhD students and postdocs.
Details on registration and the program will follow soon.
The new ICEPHA Graduate Program has been launched
July, 2014
The ICEPHA Core members have approved the establishment of the Graduate Program Membrane-associated Drug Targets in Personalized Cancer Medicine. For an initial period of 3 years more than 20 PIs from Tübingen and the Campus of the Robert-Bosch-Hospital in Stuttgart will work together on 8 cutting-edge projects. We wish you all good success in your work.
For more details see: http://www.icepha.de
Summer school: Tracking fast signalling processes in vivo
July 18 - 20th, 2014
The working groups of Peter Ruth and Robert Lukowski joined the Summer School "Tracking fast signalling processes in vivo – mechanisms, targets and tools" at the Benediktinerinnen-Abtei auf Frauenchiemsee. This Summer School was supported by the Excellence Initiative of the University of Tubingen.
Youth science competition winner Greta Markert (Baden-Baden) and Nathalie Rehse (Leverkusen) visited our research labs
June, 2014
With the help of our higly comitted and qualified students and our partners at the Institute of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University Hospital of Tübingen (Prof. Nürnberg), the Interfaculty Institute of Biochemistry (Prof. Feil), and at the Dr. Margarete Fischer-Bosch Institute of Clinical Pharmacology (Prof. Schwab) we (almost) managed to satisfy their great thirst for knowledge.
We wish both of you the best for the future and we thank you for the kind evaluation of our efforts!