Welcome Dr. Henning Schroeder

The College of Pharmacy welcomes Dr. Henning Schroeder as Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies and as a Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutics. Dr. Schroeder joins us from the School of Pharmacy, Martin-Luther-University, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, where he was Professor and Chair of Pharmacology and Toxicology. He was also a Visiting Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Palo Alto, California. Dr. Schroeder says that he will further strengthen the ties between the Duluth and Twin Cities campuses as Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies.

He will serve the College as an advocate for its research mission and graduate and post-graduate education, and advance multidisciplinary research efforts. “I really look forward to helping build research connections within and outside the College of Pharmacy,” says Dr. Schroeder, “I have been here only for a few weeks, but I am already very impressed with how open everyone is to collaboration.”

As a faculty member of the Department of Pharmaceutics, Dr. Schroeder’s research interests center upon the regulation of genes with cell protective and anti-inflammatory functions (heme oxygenase-1, ferritin). His research group is particularly interested in drugs and micronutrients that can target these genes and modulate their activity. Activators of these genes have therapeu­tic/preventive potential in atherosclerosis and other inflammatory processes (ischemia and reperfusion injury, Alzheimer’s disease, trans­plant re­jection, and autoimmune disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis or psoriasis).

Dr. Belinda Cheung, a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Pharmaceutics, is managing the build-up of Dr. Schroeder’s lab, which is housed in the McGuire Translational Research Facility. Dr. Kati Erdmann, from Dr. Schroeder’s lab in Germany, joins him here as a Post-Doctoral Associate working toward getting their research underway.

Further information may be found on his directory web page:

http://www.pharmacy.umn.edu/faculty/schroeder_henning/home.html