Matthias Schwab

Personal Details
Date and Place of Birth: September 3, 1963; Nuernberg, Germany
Family Status: married, two daughters

Professional activities

• Civilian service as house officer and later as senior house officer at the Children’s Hospital, Nuernberg, Germany (1990 - 1993)
• Senior house officer at the University Hospital of Children and Adolescents, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Erlangen, Germany (1993 - 1995)
• Fellow in clinical pharmacology at the Dr Margarete Fischer-Bosch-Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Stuttgart, Germany (1995 - 2001)
• Senior physician and Head of the Research Unit for Clinical Trials and Drug Information Centre at the Dr Margarete Fischer-Bosch-Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Stuttgart, Germany (2001 - 2005)
• Visiting Professor at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Memphis, TN, USA (2005 - 2006)
• Decline of professorship of Clinical Pharmacology, Medical University Innsbruck, Austria (2006)
• Professor and Chair of Clinical Pharmacology, University Tuebingen, Germany (2007 - present)
• Head of the Dr. Margarete Fischer-Bosch Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Stuttgart, and the Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Institute of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology,University Hospital, Tuebingen

Education

• Study of medicine, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (1983 - 1990)
• MD (Dr. med.), Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany (1991)
• State Licence as medical doctor (1992)
• Board certification: Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine (1996)
• Board certification: Clinical Pharmacology (2000)
• Habilitation, Eberhard-Karls University of Tuebingen, Germany (2003)

Honours / Memberships

• Scholarship according to the "Bayerischen Begabtenförderungsgesetz"(1983 - 1990)
• Full member of the "Committee of Drug Safety" of the German Society of Child and Adolescent Medicine (1998 - present)
• Member of the Research Committee at the Robert-Bosch Hospital, Stuttgart (1999 - 2005)
• Full Member of the Expert Group "Drugs for Children and Adolescents" at the German Federal Institute of Drugs and Medicinal products (BfArM) (2002 - 2004)
• Member of the Expert Group "HEXAL-Iinitiative drugs for children" (2004 - present)
• Member of the ethical committee of the Landesärztekammer Baden-Württemberg (2004 - present)
• Friedrich Hartmut-Dost Award (2004)
• Galenus von Pergamon Award (2005)
• Full member of the Expert Group "Drugs for Children and Adolescents" at the German Federal Institute of Drugs and Medicinal products (BfArM) (2006 - present)
• Head of the Research Committee at the Robert-Bosc Hospital, Stuttgart (2007 - present) 
• Member of IUPHAR Division of Clinical Pharmacology - Sub-Committee Pharmacogenetics (since 2008)
• Deputy chairman of the Expert Group "Drugs for Children and Adolescents" at the German Federal Institute of Drugs and Medicinal products (BfArM) (since 2008)

Editorial Boards
Pharmacogenet Genomics Clinical Chemistry Therapeutic Drug Monitoring Genome Medicine (Section Head of "Personalized Medicine and Therapeutics")

Main Research Interest
Pharmacogenomics of drug metabolizing enzymes and drug transporters
Pharmacogenomics of anticancer and immunosuppressive drugs
Drug interaction
Pediatric clinical pharmacology
Novel methodologies in genomic research