Karsten Schrör

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Karsten Schrör (born May 3, 1942 in Oldenburg , Lower Saxony ) is a German pharmacologist and professor emeritus .

Life

Schrör obtained his Abitur in Zwickau . In 1961 he began studying human medicine at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg and graduated in 1967 with the state examination. In the same year he began training as a pharmacologist and toxicologist at the Pharmacological Institute in Halle under the direction of Werner Förster . In 1970, Karsten Schrör at the University's Physiological Institute, headed by Bernd Lueken , became a Dr. med. PhD.

This was followed by activities as a research assistant at various pharmacological institutes, first in Halle, from 1974 in Mainz in the work group of Rolf Krebs and later in Cologne, where he worked in 1978 under the directorate of Wolfgang Klaus with a thesis on prostaglandins in the cardiovascular system for the subject of pharmacology and got his habilitation in toxicology. In 1984 he was appointed professor in Cologne and in 1986 he was appointed to the chair of pharmacology associated with the directorate of the Institute for Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology of the (later) Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf , which he held until his retirement in 2010. Karsten Schrör is a specialist in pharmacology and toxicology as well as a specialist in clinical pharmacology.

During the period of active employment, several long-term research stays and visiting professorships abroad took place: 1976/1977 at the Wellcome Research Laboratories (Sir John Robert Vane ), 1977 Department of Physiology at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia ( Alan M. Lefer ), Department of Clinical Pharmacology at the Medical University of South Carolina at Charleston ( Perry V. Halushka ), Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Texas at Houston ( Kenneth K. Wu ).

After his retirement, Schrör continues to devote himself to his main scientific areas of interest: pharmacology and clinical pharmacology of antiplatelet substances and antithrombotics as well as the pharmacological properties and the clinical-practical application of acetylsalicylic acid .

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From the beginning, Karsten Schrör's scientific interest was in the cardiovascular system and, very soon, in prostaglandins . Werner Förster, Schrör's first academic teacher in Halle, recognized and worked on the importance and pharmacological potential of this class of substances for the cardiovascular system early on. After moving to Mainz in 1974, Schrör had the opportunity to continue his work with Sir John Robert Vane , who later won the Nobel Prize for Medicine , in England and later in Mainz and Cologne. An essential finding that was decisive for his further scientific activities was the first detection of prostacyclin , a member of the prostaglandin family, in the heart and the investigation of its cardioprotective (protecting the heart) properties. This was followed by numerous studies on synthetic prostaglandin derivatives and their clinical-pharmacological importance, with the scientific focus shifting increasingly to the field of blood coagulation and thrombosis research . To date (as of 2018), Karsten Schrör has around 400 original publications and overviews listed in PubMed as well as several books on physiological and pharmacological aspects of myocardial infarction , the pharmacology of platelet function and blood coagulation, prostaglandins and the cellular effects of coagulation factors such as thrombin on the vascular wall and the Signal transmission of the smooth vascular muscles. In 2016 the second edition of the book Acetylsalicylic Acid was published .

In 1991 Schrör founded the Research Group Cardiovascular eV and was its chairman until it was dissolved in 2017. The research group systematically promoted cardiovascular research, primarily in the German-speaking area. a. from 1994 to 2003 responsible organizer of the annual "Knechtstedener Days for Vascular Biology and Medicine".

In 1997, Schrör founded the Dr.Schrör publishing house for natural sciences and medicine, in which several books on current topics in the pharmacology and clinical practice of drugs that affect blood coagulation and thrombosis have been published, two editions of the book “Persecuted German-speaking Pharmacologists 1933–1945”, ed. by K.öffelholz and Ullrich Trendelenburg and the book Acetylsalicyläure .

In 2007 Schrör was a founding member of the European Platelet Academy and its President from 2012 to 2015.

In 2016 the 2nd English-language edition of the book Acetylsalicylic Acid was published , 2018 the 3rd German-language edition of Acetylsalicylic acid , 2019 the 1st Chinese (Mandarin) edition of Acetylsalicylic acid .

Honorary positions

From 2003 to 2006, Karsten Schrör was the spokesman for the Working Group of Scheduled Professors for Pharmacology, Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology at German-speaking universities. From 2005 to 2010 he was chairman of the German Society for Pharmacology, between 2007 and 2010 he was also President of the umbrella organization German Society for Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology . He has served on the editorial boards of several journals, including Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology (1980–2000), “Thrombosis & Haemostasis” (2002–2006) and “ Circulation Research ” (1999–2009). Currently (as of 2018) Schrör is a Scientific Advisory Board Member of the National Health Research Institute of Taiwan . Schrör is a member of the board of trustees of the AfD- affiliated Desiderius Erasmus Foundation .

Honors

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Schrör receives his retirement certificate
  2. ↑ PubMed; accessed on January 12, 2018
  3. ^ Board of Trustees - Erasmus Foundation. Retrieved January 20, 2020 (German).
  4. ↑ Member entry of Karsten Schrör at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on May 6, 2013.
  5. ↑ Winner of the O. Schmiedeberg plaque as the highest award for life's work of the German Society for Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology (dgpt-online.de); Retrieved May 6, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Schrör, Karsten
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schroer, Karsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pharmacologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Oldenburg (Oldenburg)