Prof.dr. Martina Schmidt - full professor

Martina Schmidt specialized in molecular pharmacoloy - " Challenges to unravel novel signalling routes "- after completing her Ph.D. at the Ruhr-Universität in Bochum, Germany. In December 2005 she was awarded with the Rosalind Franklin Fellowship and started her research at the University of Groningen, Faculty of Science and Engineering.

Already in September 2006 she was promoted to associate professor in molecular pharmacology. In 2007 she received the Organon Prize for Pharmacology. Her research aims at the molecular pharmacological aspects of the development and progression of chronic inflammatory disorders of the cardiovascular, respiratory and neuronal system in the framework of GUIDE, Griac, ERIBA and the Healthy Ageing initiative of the RUG. She is member of the board of the Dutch society of pharmacology, Commissie ter beoordeling and GRIAC; she chairs the topmaster programme of the RUG, Medical Pharmaceutical Drug Innovation and the GRK880 "Vascular Medicine" of the UniversityMedical Center.