Name:
Professor Christoph Thiemermann FBPhS
Organisation:
Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry
Year elected:
2005
Primary professional setting:
Chris Thiemermann is Professor of Pharmacology and Centre Lead for Translational Medicine & Therapeutics at the William Harvey Research Institute (WHRI). He graduated with honours in Medicine (1986), obtained his MD in Medicine (1987, summa cum laude, Cologne, Germany) and a PhD in Pharmacology (supervision of The Nobel Laureate Sir John Vane, 1991). Thiemermann is an internationally recognised expert in pathophysiology and experimental therapy of shock and ischaemia-reperfusion injury with expertise in target discovery and evaluation of the efficacy of drugs in small animal models (1994 Sandoz Prize of the BPS). He has published more than 410 scientific articles (cited more than 18,500-times; h-index>75), Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the United Kingdom, a Fellow of the British Pharmacological Society, a Foreign Member of the Academy of Sciences of Portugal (Lisboa), Chair of the Fellowships Committee of the NIHR and Past-President of the European Shock Society.