Urs A. Meyer

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Urs A. Meyer

Urs Albert Meyer (born July 7, 1938 in Baden ) is a Swiss clinical pharmacologist .

Life

Urs A. Meyer received his doctorate in 1967 at the University of Zurich Dr. med. and then worked at the University of California, San Francisco . In 1974 he took over the management of the clinical pharmacology department at the University Hospital Zurich . From 1983 until his retirement in 2008, Meyer researched and taught as a professor of pharmacology at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel and was chairman of the institution for two years . He also held various functions at the WHO and the NIH and was President of the clinical section of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).

Act

Urs A. Meyer conducted research in the field of pharmacogenetics and personalized medicine and examined the influence of environmental and genetic factors on the effects of drugs . Meyer discovered defects in the enzymes of haem biosynthesis as the cause of porphyrias and how drugs trigger acute porphyrias . He was the first to identify gene variants in the enzymes of the cytochrome P450 system and showed that such polymorphisms are responsible for different drug effects. The gene variants of the N- acetyltransferases were also discovered in his laboratory. Meyer was also able to explain how drugs activate transcription factors such as nuclear receptors and thereby regulate the expression of metabolizing enzymes and drug transporters .

Awards

  • 1974: First winner of the Cloëtta Prize for Medical Research
  • 1978: Prize of the Anita Saurer Foundation
  • 1991: Rawls-Palmer Award for Progress in Medicine of the American Society of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics
  • 1992: Member of the Academia Europaea
  • 2004: Robert Pfleger research award
  • 2004: RT Williams Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award

Publications (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Curriculum Vitae
  2. ↑ List of projects and selected publications
  3. ↑ Cloetta Price
  4. ^ Rawls-Palmer Progress in Medicine Award
  5. ↑ University of Basel: Strengthened for the future. Uni Basel , March 31, 2005, accessed on December 26, 2017 (Swiss Standard German).
  6. ↑ Bibliography . Ursmeyer.biozentrum.unibas.ch. Retrieved October 11, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Urs A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meyer, Urs Albert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss doctor and clinical pharmacologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Baden AG