Andreas Pfeiffer (doctor)

Andreas Friedrich Hermann Pfeiffer (born April 5, 1953 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German internist , clinic director and university professor.

Career

Pfeiffer is the son of Ernst-Friedrich Pfeiffer . After studying medicine from 1972 to 1979 in Kiel, Montpellier and Freiburg and philosophy in Freiburg from 1975 to 1979, Andreas Pfeiffer worked scientifically on the endogenous opioid system at the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry in Munich and at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda , Maryland , until 1983. He then received his internal specialist training with specialization in endocrinology and gastroenterology at the Großhadern Clinic of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich until 1989 and completed his habilitation on the detection and neuroendocrine function of multiple opiate receptors . This was followed by work as a senior physician at the University of Bochum, Bergmannsheil Clinic until 2000. In 1999 he was offered a chair for internal medicine as director of the department of endocrinology, diabetes and nutritional medicine at the Free University of Berlin, Benjamin Franklin campus , since 2006 Charité - University Medicine Berlin . This is connected with the management of the department for clinical nutrition at the Leibniz Institute German Institute for Nutritional Research .

Awards

• 2019 Werner Creutzfeldt Prize of the German Diabetes Society
• 2014 Berthold Medal of the German Society for Endocrinology (DGE)
• 2013 Hippocrates Award from the Hellenic Society for Internal Medicine
• 2005 Meyer Schwickerath Lecture, University of Duisburg / Essen
• 1992–1997 Hermann and Lilly Schilling Professorship, Stifterverband , Essen
• 1990 Theodor Frerichs Prize of the German Society for Internal Medicine (DGIM)

Scientific work

The work on endogenous opioids ( opioid peptides ) and their receptors led to the presentation of psychotomimetic effects caused by µ-, δ- and κ- opioid receptors in humans and their effects on hormonal regulation. Studies on the development of gastric and colon carcinomas showed the importance of the receptors of the epidermal growth factor and protein kinase C, which were awarded the Theodor Frerichs Prize . From 1990 the investigation of diabetes mellitus and diabetic complications was in the foreground u. a. with studies of the insulin-like growth factor ( IGF-1 ) system and other growth factors in the human vitreous humor. From 2000, Pfeiffer devoted himself to the connection between diet and metabolic diseases. His working group investigates the role of fats, proteins and carbohydrates in the development and progression of obesity and diabetes mellitus. The focus is on the heritability of metabolic responses to nutrition ( nutrigenetics ) and the development of individual healthy nutrition strategies for people with diabetes , obesity or metabolic syndrome .

Fonts

• Diabetology compact. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg 2014, together with H. Schatz. ISBN 978-3-642-41357-5 , ISBN 978-3-642-41358-2 (eBook), doi: 10.1007 / 978-3-642-41358-2 .
• Detection and neuroendocrine function of multiple opiate receptors. Georg Thieme, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-13-760001-4 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Low-protein diets associated with reduced cancer and all-cause mortality in people aged 50-65, but not in the elderly. Berthold Prize Lecture and Medal 2014 for Prof. Andreas Pfeiffer, Berlin | DGE blog. Retrieved May 26, 2019 . 
2. ^ Andreas FH Pfeiffer. (No longer available online.) In: diabetes-update.com. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 . 
3. ^ German Society for Internal Medicine (Ed.): Theodor-Frerichs Prize, Prize Winner 1958–2018 . 2018 ( dgim.de [PDF; 737 kB ; accessed on May 26, 2019]).