Dr. Tobi Langenhan

About Dr. Tobi Langenhan

"I studied medicine at the University of Würzburg, where I obtained my license to practice and my Dr. med. degree in neuroanatomy. Then I moved to the University of Oxford on a 4-year Wellcome Trust Scholarship in Neuroscience, through which I gained an M.Sc. from Somerville College and a D.Phil. from Magdalen College Oxford, both in Neuroscience. For my doctoral studies, I joined the lab of Dr Andreas Russ at the Department of Biochemistry and first came across GPCRs, particularly the receptor family I have been investigating ever since: adhesion GPCRs. After returning to Germany I set up my own lab at the Institute of Physiology at Würzburg, where I later became Heisenberg Professor for 'Physiology and pathophysiology of mechanoceptive signalling pathways'. Shortly after was recruited to the Medical Faculty of Leipzig University, where I now head the Department of General Biochemistry at the Rudolf Schönheimer Institute. I work with invertebrate animal models (mainly D. melanogaster) and in vitro techniques to pick apart the physiological and pharmacological principles that underlie the workings of adhesion GPCRs in health and disease. This entails the deciphering of cellular and organ functions, which require individual adhesion GPCRs, and extends to the development of novel screening approaches to identify pharmacological modulators of human adhesion GPCRs."

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