Biosketch, Wolfgang Sadée, Dr.rer.nat.

Dr. Sadée is Felts Mercer Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, Chair, Department of Pharmacology, and Director, Program in Pharmacogenomics, Ohio State University, Columbus OH. He studied Pharmacy and received his doctorate in Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the FU Berlin in 1968. After two post-doctoral positions at UCSF and the FU Berlin, he joined USC in Los Angeles as Assistant Professor of Pharmacy and Medicine from 81-83, and subsequently, moved to UCSF, serving as Professor of Biopharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco until 2002. Dr. Sadée’s research focuses on the structure and function of G protein coupled receptors (GPCRs), and receptor signaling relevant to drug addiction and cognitive disorders. Further, Dr. Sadée’s group studies the functional evolution of receptors, transporters, and ion channels, based on emerging concepts in structural biology and genomics. Recently, his laboratory has moved into the area of pharmacogenomics to understand the genetic variability of drug response, with focus on cardiovascular, CNS, and anticancer drugs. Dr. Sadée has published over 200 research papers, book chapters and monographs. He has received the first AAPS Research Achievement Award in Biotechnology, the Paul Dawson Award in Biotechnology from AACP, and the 2001 Distinguished Pharmaceutical Scientist Award from AAPS. He served as founding editor of Pharmaceutical Research and is currently Editor-in-Chief of the new on-line journal AAPS PharmSci. He teaches in the areas of pharmacogenomics, biotechnology, medicinal chemistry-pharmacology, and history of health sciences.