Christel Taube

Christel Taube (born July 27, 1936 in Sonneberg , Thuringia) is a German doctor and former professor of pharmacology and toxicology at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg .

Life

Christel Taube, nee Reusch, was born as the daughter of the chemist Hans-Joachim Reusch and his wife Erika. She grew up with a younger brother. After school in Sonneberg, she passed the Abitur examination at the local high school in 1954 and then studied human medicine at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena , where she also passed her state examination. Christel Taube has been married to the chemist Rudolf Taube since 1958 . In 1961 she received her medical license. Because of the births of her two daughters, she stopped working. In 1965 she returned to work, became a research assistant at the Institute for Physiological Chemistry at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald , where she received her PhD in 1966. med. PhD. In 1969 she was qualified as a specialist in biochemistry.

In 1970 she moved to the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg, initially as a scientific assistant, from 1973 as senior physician and head of the department for biochemical pharmacology at the Institute for Pharmacology and Toxicology, from 1985 as deputy director. Taube completed his habilitation in 1979 with the thesis "On the connection between prostaglandin biosynthesis and lowering blood pressure". She was appointed adjunct professor in 1985 and university professor in 1990. In 1996 she retired.

Awards (selection)

In 2013 she was awarded the Paracelsus Medal of the German Medical Association.

Web links

• Laudation for the awarding of the Paracelsus Medal to Christel Taube