Carbohydrate coupling for macrophage-targeted RNA therapeutics

Stefan Engelhardt MD PhD

Director, Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology

Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM)

Professor Engelhardt conducts research in the field of signal transduction in the cardiovascular system. He studied medicine at the universities of Regensburg, Munich and Harvard. After his master's degree at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry and his PhD and postdoc at the University of Würzburg, Professor Engelhardt headed a junior research group at the DFG Center for Experimental Biomedicine (Rudolf Virchow Center). He was a professor of pharmacology at the University of Würzburg, before being appointed to the Chair of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the TUM in 2008. He also serves as speaker of the German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) in Munich.