Professor Dr Wolfgang Kummer
Senator der Sektion Anatomie und Anthropologie
- Section Anatomy and Anthropology
- Location Gießen, Germany
- Election year 2001
Research
Wissenschaftliche Schwerpunkte sind die Regulation des Atmungs- und Herz-Kreislaufsystems durch das Nervensystem, Schutzmechanismen des Körpers gegen Sauerstoffmangel und die Wirkungen des Botenstoffs Azetylcholin außerhalb des Nervensystems („non-neuronale cholinerge Systeme“).
Career
- since 1994 Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Giessen, Germany
- 2008 Offer to University of Munich (declined)
- 2000 Offer to University of Hamburg (declined)
- 1993 Guest Professor at the Asthma and Allergy Center of the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA, Section Dr. B. Undem & Dr. A. Myers, NIH-BMBF Exchange
- 1992-1994 Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology (C3), Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Marburg, Germany
- 1991-1992 Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Heidelberg, Germany
- 1990 Habilitation and Venia legendi for the specialty “Anatomy and Cell Biology“, Faculty of Medicine, University of Heidelberg, Germany
- 1985-1991 Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Heidelberg, Germany
- 1985 Doctoral thesis (“summa cum laude“, Dr. med.), University of Cologne, Germany
- 1977-1983 Study of Medicine at the University of Cologne, Germany
Functions
- since 2001 Chair of the Selection Committee of the Feulgen Prize of the Society for Histochemistry
- since 2000 European Representative (2001-2007), Secretary (2007-2011) and Board Member (since 2011) of the International Society of Autonomic Neuroscience
- since 1999 Chair of the Selection Committee of the Chihiro and Kiyoko Yokochi Fund of the Ichiro Kanehara Foundation
- 1995-1997 President of the Society for Histochemistry
Projects
- since 2012 Speaker of the LOEWE Research Focus Non-neuronal Cholinergic Systems
- since 2011 Faculty Member German Lung Research Center
- since 2009 Faculty Member Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center (LOEWE Center)
- since 2006 Faculty Member Excellence Cluster CardioPulmonary System
- 1997-2009 Member of Executive Committee of the SFB 547 Cardiopulmonary Vascular System
Honours and Memberships
- 2011 Pfizer Visiting Professor in Pneumology at the Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, USA
- 2006 Eugen Rehfisch Award, Forum Urodynamicum
- 2002 Friedrich Dost Prize, Medical Society, Giessen, Germany
- 2001 Election to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- 1993 Wolfgang Bargmann Prize, Anatomical Society
- 1990 Julius Redel Prize, Medical Faculty, University of Heidelberg, Germany
- 1989 Heymans De Castro Neil Award, International Society for Arterial Chemoreception