Prof. Dr. med. Matthias Schwab
Professor and Chair of Clinical Pharmacology University Tuebingen Germany, Head of the Dr. Margarete Fischer-Bosch Institute of Clinical Pharmacology Stuttgart and the Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Institute of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology University Hospital Tuebingen Germany
Education
- 1983 - 1990
Study of medicine, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg - 1991
MD (Dr. med.), Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany - 1992
State Licence as medical doctor - 1996
Board certification: Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine - 2000
Board certification: Clinical Pharmacology - 2003
Habilitation, Eberhard-Karls University of Tuebingen, Germany
Professional appointments:
- 1990 - 1993
Civilian service as house officer and later as senior house officer at the Children’s Hospital, Nuernberg, Germany - 1993 - 1995
Senior house officer at the University Hospital of Children and Adolescents, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Erlangen, Germany - 1995 - 2001
Fellow in clinical pharmacology at the Dr Margarete Fischer-Bosch-Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Stuttgart, Germany - 2001 - 2005
Senior physician and Head of the Research Unit for Clinical Trials and Drug Information Centre at the Dr Margarete Fischer-Bosch-Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Stuttgart, Germany - 2005 - 2006
Visiting Professor at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Memphis, TN, USA - 2006
Decline of Full professorship of Clinical Pharmacology, Medical University Innsbruck, Austria - 2007 - present
Professor and Chair of Clinical Pharmacology, University Tuebingen, Germany; Head of the Dr. Margarete Fischer-Bosch Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Stuttgart, and the Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Institute of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, University Hospital, Tuebingen, Germany
Membership
Scholarship according to the "Bayerischen Begabtenförderungsgesetz"(1983 - 1990)
Full member of the "Committee of Drug Safety" of the German Society of Child
and Adolescent Medicine (1998 - present)
Member of the Research Committee at the Robert-Bosch Hospital, Stuttgart (1999 - 2005)
Full Member of the Expert Group "Drugs for Children and Adolescents" at the German Federal Institute of Drugs and Medicinal products (BfArM) (2002 - 2004)
Member of the Expert Group "HEXAL-Iinitiative drugs for children" (2004 - present)
Member of the ethical committee of the Landesärztekammer Baden-Württemberg (2004 - present)
Friedrich Hartmut-Dost Award (2004)
Galenus von Pergamon Award (2005)
Full member of the Expert Group "Drugs for Children and Adolescents" at the German Federal Institute of Drugs and Medicinal products (BfArM) (2006 - present)
Head of the Research Committee at the Robert-Bosch Hospital, Stuttgart (2007 - present)
Member of IUPHAR Division of Clinical Pharmacology - Sub-Committee Pharmacogenetics (since 2008)
Deputy chairman of the Expert Group "
Research Fields and Activities
Pharmacogenet Genomics, Clinical Chemistry , Therapeutic Drug Monitoring,
Genome Medicine (Section Head of "Personalized Medicine and Therapeutics")