Further functions

• Director of the Institute for Vegetative Physiology at the University of Würzburg
• Leader of the CRC project B2

Qualifications

• Specialist in pharmacology and toxicology

Special fields

• Cardiovascular physiology, pathophysiology and pharmacology
• Signal transduction by particulate guanylyl cyclases in the cardiovascular systems
• Paracrine and endocrine functions of cardiac natriuretic peptides
• Pathomechanisms arterial hypertension, hypertrophy and heart failure
• Genetic mouse models of hypertension, cardiac hypertrophy and endothelial dysfunction