Prof. Dr. Thorsten Lehr

Research

His research focus areas are those of the group:

• PBPK 2.0
• Cardiometabolic diseases
• Drug-drug-gene interactions (DDGIs)
• Decision support
• Chronopharmacology

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Curriculum vitae

Since 10/2024: Full Professor (W3) of Clinical Pharmacy, Saarland University, Saarbrücken

Since 10/2019: CEO and Scientific Director, co-founder of Saarmetrics GmbH, Saarbrücken, a spin-off of Saarland University

03/2017 – 09/2024: Associate Professor (W2) of Clinical Pharmacy, Saarland University, Saarbrücken

10/2012 – 03/2017: Junior Professor (W1) of Clinical Pharmacy, Saarland University, Saarbrücken

04/2008 – 09/2012: Principal Pharmacometrician, Translational Medicine, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG, Biberach/Riss, Germany

01/2006 – 04/2008: Postdoc, Mechanistic Toxicology, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc., Ridgefield (CT), USA

07/2006: Dr. rer. nat. (summa cum laude), Clinical Pharmacy, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, supervisor: Prof. Dr. Charlotte Kloft

01/2003 – 12/2005: Doctoral student in Clinical Pharmacy, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, in cooperation with Boehringer Ingelheim

12/2002: Licensed as pharmacist

10/1997 – 10/2001: Pharmacy studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main

Functions and memberships

Since 2024: Head of the Department of Pharmacy, Saarland University

Since 2019: Member of the Open Systems Pharmacology Management Team

Since 2018: Member of the Representative Assembly of the Saarland Chamber of Pharmacists

2018 – 2025: Organising team of the PK/PD Expert Meeting

2020 – 2023: Corona Expert Panel of the Saarland State Government

2017 – 2023: Head of the Clinical Pharmacy section of the German Pharmaceutical Society (DPhG)

2017: Chair of the DPhG annual meeting in Saarbrücken

2014 – 2016: President of the DPhG regional group Saar

Memberships: German Pharmaceutical Society (DPhG), Central European Society for Anticancer Drug Research (CESAR), American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (ASCPT)

Awards

2018: CESAR Award for translational cancer research, Central European Society for Anticancer Drug Research

2017: Luther Award, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

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