Prof. Dr. Martin Biel
Chair of Pharmacology

	Address	Prof. Dr. Martin Biel Department Pharmazie - Zentrum für Pharmaforschung - Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Butenandtstr. 7, Haus C 81377 München Germany
	Office	+49 (0)89 2180-77327 (Katharina Heimberger)
	Phone	+49 (0)89 2180-77328
	Room-Nr.	C4.060
	Email
	Home page	www.pharmacology.cup.uni-muenchen.de

Research Interests

• Ion channels in brain and cardiovascular system
• Endolysosomal ion channels
• Preclinical mouse models
• Gene therapy

Short CV

• Study of pharmacy, Universität des Saarlandes
• 1990 Ph.D., Universität des Saarlandes
• 1996 Habilitation, TU München
• Since 1999 Professor for Pharmacology (C4), LMU München

Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences

Key publications

• Fenske S, …, Biel M, Wahl-Schott C (2020) cAMP-dependent regulation of HCN4 controls the tonic entrainment process in sinoatrial node pacemaker cells. Nat Commun. 11:5555.
• Böhm S,...,Biel M, Michalakis S, Becirovic E. (2020) A gene therapy for inherited blindness using dCas9-VPR-mediated transcripional activation. Science Advances 6:eaba5614.
• Hammelmann V,…, Biel M (2019). Abolishing cAMP sensitivity in HCN2 pacemaker channels induces generalized seizures. JCI Insight pii: 126418.
• Sakurai Y, Kolokoltsov AA, Chen CC, Tidwell MW, Bauta WE, Klugbauer N, Grimm C, Wahl-Schott C, Biel M, Davey RA (2015) Two pore channels control Ebolavirus host cell entry and are drug targets for disease treatment. Science 347, 995-998.
• Ludwig A, Zong X, Jeglitsch M, Hofmann F, Biel M (1998) A family of hyperpolarization-activated mammalian cation channels. Nature 393:587-591.