Lab head:

 

Prof. Dr. Dr. Christian Michael Grimm, PhD

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Christian is Professor for Molecular Pharmacology at the Walther-Straub-Institute (WSI) of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Medical Faculty, Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) Munich, Germany. Christian has been working in the field of ion channels, in particular TRP channels for more than 20 years, starting as a PhD Student (Dr. rer. nat.) at the Free University (FU) of Berlin, Germany, followed by postdoctoral research fellowships at Harvard University and Stanford University, USA (2004-2009). In 2009 Christian joined pharmaceutical industry (Pfizer Ltd., UK) as a principal scientist working on ion channels as targets to treat neuropathic pain. In 2011, Christian returned to Germany and to academia as a group leader in pharmacology at the Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy of the LMU Munich. Since then he has focused his research on endo-lysosomal ion channels, in particular TRPML channels and two-pore channels (TPCs), resulting in several high-profile publications in PNAS, EMBO J., Nature Commun., Nature Protoc., and Science. For his work he received several awards, the Ernst-Reuter Award of the Free University Berlin (2005), the NCL Foundation Award (2016), and the Care for Rare Award of the LMU Munich Childrens' Hospital (2017). Christian also holds a PhD (Dr. phil.) in Philosophy.

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In addition, since 2022 Christian is leading a research team at the Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology (ITMP), Section of Immunology, Infection and Pandemic Research (IIP) in Munich/Penzberg.

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Web links:

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https://www.wsi.med.uni-muenchen.de/personen/professoren/grimm/index.html

 

https://www.itmp.fraunhofer.de/en.html

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Christian_Grimm2

https://www.linkedin.com/in/prof-dr-dr-christian-grimm-7097795/

https://twitter.com/lysolabmunich

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0177-5559
 

Memberships:

Member of the European Calcium Society (ECS)

https://gbiomed.kuleuven.be/apps/lmcs/ecs/index.php

Member of the German Pharmacological Society (DGP)

https://www.dg-pharmakologie.de/startseite.html

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Lab members:

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Dr. Yvonne Klingl, PhD

Postdoc (Fraunhofer, BI)

(Germany)

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Dr. Dawid Jaslan, PhD

Postdoc (WSI)

(Poland)

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Eva Weiden, PhD student (GRK2338, DFG)

(Germany)

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Rebecca Deutsch, PhD student (DFG GR4315/2-2)

​(Germany)

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Sandra Castro, PhD student (SFB1328, DFG)

​(Spain)

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Mane Mkhitaryan, MD student (GRK2338)

​(Armenia)

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Keyne Talbot, MD student (GRK2338)

​(France)

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Veronika Kudrina, former Master student

Now PhD student (SFB/TRR152, DFG)

(Russia/Kasachstan)

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Marco Müller

Master student

(Germany)

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Alumni:

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Carla Abrahamian (Armenia/Syria/Lebanon)

PhD candidate (defending in 2023/24)

 

Rachel Tang (Malaysia/USA)

PhD candidate (defending in 2023/24)

 

Dr. Einar Kleinhans-Krogsaeter (Norway)

Now UCSF, USA

 

Dr. Yu-Kai Chao (Taiwan)

Now Roche, CH

 

Dr. Julia Böck (Germany)

Now Bristol-Myers-Squibb, Munich, Germany

 

Dr. Barbara Spix (Germany)

 

Dr. Ponsawan Netcharoensirisuk (“Nes”) (Thailand)

 

Marcel Passon (Germany)

Now PhD student, University of Ghent, Belgium

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