Ursula Quitterer
Professor
Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Switzerland
Biography
Ursula Quitterer is a Full Professor of Molecular Pharmacology in the Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences at ETH Zurich since February 2006. In 1966 Ursula Quitterer was born in Passau, Germany. She studied pharmaceutical sciences in Regensburg and obtained a Ph.D. degree in 1994 from the University of Mainz. After a postdoctorate at Roche Biosciences Inc. in Palo Alto (USA), she joined the Institute of Pharmacology at the University of Würzburg (Deutschland) as a senior scientist. In 1999 she was awarded the "Bayerische Habilitationsförderpreis". Research visits at Medigene Inc. (Munich) and at the Heinrich-Pette-Institute of Experimental Virology and Immunology (Hamburg) followed. She achieved the habilitation for pharmacology and toxicology in 2001. From 2004 to 2005 she directed the teaching program of pharmacology and toxicology for pharmaceutical and life science students at the University of Wuerzburg.
Research Interest
Pathomechanisms of cardiovascular disease; Atherosclerosis with particular focus on the relationship between cardiovascular risk factors.
