Presenting Author
Johannes Gutenberg University, Germany
Dr. Martin C. Michel graduated from medical school at the University of Essen in 1985. Based upon a thesis in the Dept. of Biochemistry of the University of Essen he received a doctorate in 1987. He has worked as a post-doc in Essen (1985-1987) and at the University of California San Diego (1987-1990) and was appointed as Adjunct Assistant Professor in San Diego and as lecturer in Essen in 1991. He is a board-certified pharmacologist (1990) and clinical pharmacologist (1997). Between 1993 and 2002 he was head of the Nephrology and Hypertension Research Laboratory at the University of Essen, 2003-2011 professor and head of the Department of Pharmacology & Pharmacotherapy at the University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands) and 2011-2016 Global Head Product & Pipeline Scientific Support at Boehringer Ingelheim. He currently is a Professor of Pharmacology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Germany). He is a member of many pharmacological and urological societies and serves as editor of several journals including Neurourology & Urodynamics, Pharmacological Reviews, Molecular Pharmacology and Naunyn-Schmiedeberg’s Archives of Pharmacology. Dr. Michel has published more than 500 articles in peer-reviewed journals cited more than 31,000 times (h-index 89). His most important academic honour was the election into the Academia Europaea, the European academy of sciences, in 2008. Dr. Michel’s research interests include urogenital and cardiovascular pharmacology and physiology spanning the entire range from molecular pharmacology to clinical trials.