Andreas Draguhn
Andreas Draguhn (born April 12, 1961 in Wuppertal ) is a German doctor and university professor at the Heidelberg University Hospital of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg .
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Draguhn studied human medicine , physics and philosophy at the University of Bonn from 1981 after high school and community service . He completed his studies in 1987 and then devoted himself to his dissertation at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen and the Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine . Under supervision of Bert Sakmann Draguhn 1990 with the work Functional characterization of heterologously expressed GABAA receptors: contributions to the understanding of a gene family of Dr. med. PhD. He then spent his internship at the Remscheid Municipal Clinic. In 1991 he passed his third state examination and was provisionally approved, followed by a full license in 1993. In 1992 he became a research assistant to Uwe Heinemann at the University of Cologne and with him moved to the Charité in 1994 . There Draguhn completed his habilitation in 1999 and received the venia legendi for the subject physiology . Draguhn has held the full professorship for Physiology and Director at the Institute for Physiology and Pathophysiology at Heidelberg University since 2002 . From 2012 to 2013 he was the managing director of this institute and again since 2016. From October 1, 2018, Draguhn was dean of the Heidelberg Medical Faculty. In the course of the affair about the early detection of breast cancer by blood test by HeiScreen, he had to resign early in July 2019.
Draguhn's research focuses primarily on electrophysiology at the level of cells and neuronal networks in vitro. In particular, the main focus is on the function of GABAergic synapses , the pathophysiology and pharmacology of epilepsy and the mechanisms of fast network oscillations in the hippocampus.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Draguhn does not admit a single mistake on rnz.de, accessed on May 18, 2020.
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| SURNAME | Draguhn, Andreas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physician and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 12, 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wuppertal |