Artur Mayerhofer

Artur Mayerhofer (* 1960 ) is a German physician and professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

biography

After graduating from high school , studying medicine and doing a doctorate at Ulm University , Mayerhofer worked as a research assistant at Ulm University in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology . In 1992 he completed his habilitation in anatomy at the University of Ulm.

He then worked for a year at what was then Schering AG in Berlin . From 1993 to 1996 he was a Heisenberg Fellow of the DFG at the Oregon Health & Science University , before one in March 1996 call received at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich as a university professor.

At the Institute for Cell Biology at the LMU in Martinsried / Großhadern , his research group dealt with the cells of the wall of the seminiferous tubules in the male testicle . The cellular model they developed led to indications that these cells could send out messenger substances that trigger fertility disorders in men.

Mayerhofer is married and has four children.

literature

• Fine control of the gonadal function: superordinate, regional and cellular regulatory mechanisms; Habilitation paper, Ulm; 1992
• The vascular structure in the golden hamster ovar, a functional-morphological examination during the oestrus cycle; Dissertation, Ulm; 1987

Prices

• Dietrich Knorr Prize of the German Society for Endocrinology , 2009

Web links

• Literature by and about Artur Mayerhofer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Institute for Cell Biology at the LMU

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Schwäbische Zeitung: Less and less sperm in European men. of July 26, 2017, accessed October 12, 2017
2. ↑ uni-münchen.de: Awards and Honors 3/2009, accessed on October 12, 2017
3. ↑ endokrinologie.net: Announcements of the German Society for Endocrinology, 33rd year, DGE awards in 2009, p. 31 accessed on October 14, 2017