Ulrike Holzgrabe
University of Würzberg, Germany

Ulrike Holzgrabe received her diploma degree in Chemistry at the University of Marburg in 1979, her approbation in Pharmacy in 1982, and her PhD in Pharmaceutical Chemistry in 1983 both at the University of Kiel. After habilitation in Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of Kiel in 1989 she became an associate professor at the University of Bonn (1990-1999). In 1988 she was a post-doc fellow at the University of Bath, UK, with Alan Casy, in 1994 a visiting professor at the University of Erlangen with J. Gasteiger, and 1995 at the University of Illinois at Chicago with A.F. Hopfinger. Since 1999 she holds a full professorship at the University of Würzburg (declining offers from the universities of Tübingen, Münster and Berlin). She served as vice-rector of the University of Bonn from 1997-1999, as a vice president and from 2004 till 2007 as a president of the German Pharmaceutical Society. She is a member of the German and European Committee of the Pharmacopoeia (BfArM, EDQM), and a member of the scientific board of the BfArM. She is interested in the development of muscarinic ligands (Alzheimer´s disease and pain), antiinfectives and drug analysis.