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Lab head:

Prof. Dr. Dr. Christian Michael Grimm, PhD (Oxford, Munich)

Christian is

-Professor of Molecular Pharmacology at the Walther-Straub-Institute (WSI) of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Medical Faculty, Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) Munich, Germany and

-Professor of Organelle Biology and Pharmacology at the Department of Pharmacolgy, University of Oxford, UK.

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

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 TRP 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 Hamburg (2016), and the Care for Rare Award of the LMU Munich Childrens' Hospital (2017).

Christian also holds a PhD (Dr. phil.) in Philosophy.

Web links:

https://www.pharm.ox.ac.uk/team

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

https://www.itmp.fraunhofer.de

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)

Member of the German Pharmacological Society (DGP)

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

Current lab members

Postdocs

Dr. Yvonne Klingl, Postdoc (BI)

(Germany)

Dr. Dawid Jaslan, Postdoc (LMU)

(Poland)

Dr. Ana Belen Malpartida, Postdoc (FhG)

(Peru)

Dr. Justyna Jaslan, Postdoc (DFG)

(Poland)

Dr. Nidish Ponath Sadanandan, Postdoc (ZIM)

(India)

Dr. Danusa Menegaz, Postdoc (FhG)

(Brasil)

PhD/MD students

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

(Germany)

Veronika Kudrina, former MA student

Now PhD student (DFG GR4315/6-1)

(Russia/Kasachstan)

Yurong Ling, PhD student (DFG GR4315/7-1)

(China)

Andreas Vogel, PhD student (DFG4315/7-1)

(Germany)

Zala Serianz, PhD student (GRK2338, DFG)

(Slovenia - and this is not the same as Slovakia ;))

Isabella von Koss, MD student (GRK2338, DFG)

(Germany)

Alumni:

Dr. Tobias Schulze, Postdoc (SFB/TRR152, DFG)

(Germany)

Eva Weiden, PhD student (GRK2338, DFG)

(Germany)

Sandra Castro, PhD student (SFB1328, DFG)

(Spain)

Vladislav Parkhomov, MD student (GRK2338, DFG)

(Ukraine)

Dr. Arnas Petrauskas, Postdoc (FhG)

(Ireland)

Mane Mkhitaryan (Armenia), MD student

Keyne Talbot (France/Germany), MD student

Marco Müller (Germany), MA student

(defended in 2024)

Now BioNtech, Germany

Dr. Carla Abrahamian (Armenia/Syria/Lebanon)

PhD candidate (defended in 2024)

Now TUM, Munich, Germany

Dr. Rachel Tang (Malaysia/USA)

PhD candidate (defended in 2024)

Now Charlesriver, UK

Dr. Einar Kleinhans-Krogsaeter (Norway)

PhD candidate (defended in 2022)

Now UCSF, USA

Dr. Julia Böck (Germany)

PhD candidate (defended in 2022)

Now Bristol-Myers-Squibb, Munich, Germany

Dr. Barbara Spix (Germany)

PhD candidate (defended in 2022)

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

PhD candidate

Dr. Yu-Kai Chao (Taiwan)

PhD candidate (defended in 2019)

Now Roche, CH

Marcel Passon (Germany), MA student

(defended in 2019)

Now PhD student, University of Ghent, Belgium