Martin Paul (professor)

[1] On 29 April 2021 it was announced that he will succeed Axel Schölmerich as rector of the Ruhr University Bochum in Germany on 1 November 2021.

[2] After stints as a lecturer at Heidelberg University and as a research group leader with Detlev Ganten at Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin-Buch, Paul became Full Professor of Clinical Pharmacology at the Benjamin Franklin Medical Center of the Freie Universität (FU) Berlin in 1995.

He was president of German Society of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology from 2006 to 2007 and chairman of the European Council for Cardiovascular Research from 2006 to 2008.

Prof. Dr. Martin Paul has authored more than 200 research papers[5] in the fields of molecular medicine, clinical and experimental pharmacology and cardiovascular disease.

He has been active in several professional organizations, for example as president of German Society of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology (DGPT) and as Chairman of the European Council for Cardiovascular Research (ECCR).