Prof. Holzgrabe
Seniorprofessor for Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry
| born: | 1956 in Wuppertal, Germany |
| 1974 - 1982 | Studies in chemistry and pharmacy at the universities of Marburg and Kiel |
| 1983 | Dr. rer. nat. "with honors" awarded by the University of Kiel (faculty award) |
| 1988 | Postdoc Dr. Alan Casy, the "School of Pharmacy", University of Bath, UK Research on: Stereochemistry and pharmacology on piperidone-type drugs |
| 1989 | Habilitation in Pharmaceutical Chemistry (Research on: New Synthesis pathways to isoquinoline-like drugs) |
| 1990 - 1999 | Associate professor (C3) at the University of Bonn |
| Jan. - April 1995 | Visiting research professor at the university of Illinois at Chicago, USA |
| 1996 - 1998 | Deputizing the chair in Pharmaceutical Chemistry (C4) University of Bonn |
| 1997 - 1999 | Vice-rector of the University of Bonn |
| 1998/1999 | Chairs offered from the universities of Tübingen, Münster, and Würzburg |
| since 1999 | Chairperson of the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the Institute of Pharmacy and Food Chemistry, University of Würzburg |
| 2004 | Chair offered from the free universities of Berlin, declined |
| 2004 - 2007 | President of the German Pharmaceutical Society |
| 2008 | Offer of the CEO position of the "Federal institute for Drugs and Medical Devices" (BfArM), declined |
| 2009 - 2011 | Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy |
| 2018 - 2021 | Vice President of the University of Würzburg (focus: teacher training as well as teaching and learning) |
| 2022 | Senior Professor for Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry (University of Würzburg) |
- Development of antiinfectives (from scratch and nature)
- Development of selective ligands of muscarinic receptors
- Bioanalytics and Analysis of drugs using capillary electrophoresis and NMR spectroscopy
| 1999 | Wolfgang-Pauli-Award of the University of Bonn |
| 1999 | Phoenix-Science Award |
| 2000 | Lesmüller-Lecture |
| 2016 | Bazley oration, Society of Microbiology, Perth, Australia |
| 2019 | Bavarian Order of Merit (Free State of Bavaria) |
| 2021 | Elsa-Ullmann medal (DPhG) |
| 2022 | Ehrennadel der Bayerischen Apotheker (BLAK) |
| 2023 | Lesmueller medal (BAK) |
| 2023 | Honorary Citizen (Wuerzburg University) |
| 2023 | Science Award (Dr. August and Dr. Anni Lesmüller Foundation) |
| 2023 | Research Funding Award (Vogel Foundation Dr. Eckernkamp) |
| since 1995 | Editorial Board Member Pharmazie in unserer Zeit (bis 2012) / Pharmakon (ab 2013), Deutsche Apothekerzeitung und Medizinsche Monatsschrift für Pharmazeuten |
| since 2000 | Advisory Board Member Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis |
| since 2004 | Editorial Board Member Current Pharmaceutical Analysis |
| since 2012 | Advisory Board Member Journal of Medicinal Chemistry |
| since 2013 | Associate Editor Journal of Medicinal Chemistry |
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DAAD, Swiss Nationalfonds, Ministery of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, etc.
| since 2000 | Chairperson of the "Committee of Pharmaceutical Chemistry", member of the German Pharmacopoeia Commission and member of the scientific board of the "Federal Institute of Drugs and Medical Devices" |
| 2002-2010 | Chair of the expert group 10D at the "European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines", Strasburg, since 2014 chair of the expert group 11, and still member of the European Pharmacopoeia Commission and several working groups |
| 2003-2008 | Member of the board of trustees of the University of Bonn |
| 2008 - 2016 | Collegiate of the German research foundation (DFG) and since 2012 chair of the collegium "regenerative medicine and tumor research" |
| since 2010 | Member of the scientific board of the Helmholtz Centre for Pharmaceutical Sciences in Saarbrücken and the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research in Braunschweig |
| 2007-2011 | Member of the Board of Pharmaceutical Science of the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) and Co-Chair of the scientific Interest group (SIG) "Medicinal Chemistry" |
| 2007-2011 | Member of the Executive committee of the European Federation for Pharmaceutical Sciences |
| since 2016 | Member of the selection committee of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation |
| since 2003 | DFG SFB 630, principal investigator and vice speaker |
| 2009-2012 | DFG Clinical Research Unit 216, principal investigator |
