Lab head:

Prof. Dr. Dr. Christian Michael Grimm, PhD

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Christian is Professor of Molecular Pharmacology at the Walther-Straub-Institute 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 has also a PhD in Philosophy (Dr. phil.).

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Web links:

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