Foto: Wiebke Peitz, Charité

Michael Fromm
Seniorprofessor, Dr. med.

Representative of the German Research Foundation (DFG) at the Charité: Hints & tips

 

e-mail  michael.fromm{α}charite.de
phone  +49 30 450-514521 (direct)
+49 30 450-514522 (secretary)
   
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K-6203-2013

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Publications

Research topics

   - Epithelial Na+ channel (ENaC)
   - Impedance spectroscopy

Recent grants German Research Foundation (DFG)

 2022 - 2026

Fromm, Piontek

Project A3 "Claudin- and TAMP-mediated water transport", in:
DFG Research Training Group (GRK 2318/2) "Tight junctions and their proteins: molecular features and actions in health and disease (TJ-Train)"
 2020

Günzel
et al.

DFG major instrumentation (Großgerät, 700 T€) STED super-resolution confocal microscope, consortium project: Fromm M
 2017 - 2022

Fromm, Schulzke

Project A3 "Claudin- and TAMP-mediated water transport", in:
DFG Research Training Group (GRK 2318/1) "Tight junctions and their proteins: molecular features and actions in health and disease (TJ-Train)"

 2017 - 2022

Krug, Fromm

Project C2 "Role of the tricellular tight junction in inflammatory bowel diseases", in:
DFG Research Training Group (GRK 2318/1) "Tight junctions and their proteins: molecular features and actions in health and disease (TJ-Train)"

 2017 Bachmann (Anatomy)

DFG major instrumentation (INST 335/596-1 FUGG) Field emission scanning electron microscope (FESEM), consortium project: Fromm M, Krug SM, Piontek J "Paracellular versus transcytotic macromolecule passage / Organization of claudins in nanodomains"

 2014 - 2018

Fromm DFG Research Grant (FR 652/12-1) "Tight junction protein-mediated water transport"
 2010 - 2013 Fromm, Schulzke Project B2 "Paracellular intestinal barrier - effects of probiotics and feed additives", in:
DFG Collaborative Research Center 852 (SFB 852/1), Coordinator J. Zentek: "Nutrition and intestinal microbiota - host interaction in the pig"
 2006 - 2009
 2010 - 2012
Fromm

Coordinator: DFG Research Unit 721 (FOR 721/1, -/2) "Molecular structure and function of the tight junction"

 2006 - 2009
 2010 - 2012
Fromm, Amasheh

Project TP1 "Characterization of tight junction proteins as barrier or channel formers", in:
DFG Research Unit 721 (FOR 721/1, -/2) "Molecular structure and function of the tight junction"

 2010 - 2012 Rittner, Brack, Fromm

Project TP8 "Tight junction-proteins as permeability regulators of the perineurium and the antinociception of perineurally applied drugs", in:
DFG Research Unit 721 (FOR 721/2) "Molecular structure and function of the tight junction"

 2006 - 2009
 2010 - 2012
Fromm, Schulzke, Krug

Project Z "Freeze fracture electron microscopy; general duties", in:
DFG Research Unit 721 (FOR 721/1, -/2) "Molecular structure and function of the tight junction"

 2009 - 2012 Aust, Amasheh,
Fromm

DFG Research Grant (AU 132/7-1 and AM 141/4-1) "Meaning of CD97 in experimental colitis and ulcerative colitis: functional characterization of the molecule in intestinal epithelial cells"

 2008 - 2010

Günzel,
Fromm

DFG Research Grant (GU 447/11-1) "Barrier and channel properties of claudins in the renal diluting segment and distal nephron"

CV

 1965 - 1972

Study of Medicine, Freie Universität Berlin and University of Würzburg

 1973

Physician State Diploma

 1975 - 1980

Postgraduate, Inst. of Clinical Physiology, FU Berlin

 1978

Doctor of Medicine, Thesis on intestinal transport

 1979 - 1980

Max Kade scholarship, Dept. Physiology & Cell Biology (Prof. S.G. Schultz) University of Texas, Houston TX, USA

 1980 - 1986

Research Fellow, Inst. Clin. Physiology

 1986

Habilitation for Physiology and Clinical Physiology

 1987 - 2001

Senior Fellow, Inst. Clin. Physiology

 1991

Extraordinary Professor

 1993   

Medical specialist in Physiology (Facharzt)

 2001 - 2014  

Appointment as Full Professor of Clinical Physiology 
(Schwerpunkt-Professur für Klinische Physiologie)

 2002 - 2014

Director of the Institute of Clinical Physiology, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin

 2014 - 2017

Guest Scientist, Clinical Physiology / Nutritional Medicine, Charité ‒ Universitätsmedizin Berlin

 since 2017

Seniorprofessor of Charité ‒ Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Clinical Physiology / Nutritional Medicine

Duties

 1993 - 2003

Chair of the Benjamin Franklin Med. Sch. research committee
2003 - 2006 Vice-chair of the Charité research committee

 1998 - 2015

Secretary general, European Intestinal Transport Group (EITG)

 2006 - 2009

Coordinator of German Research Foundation Research Unit (DFG FOR 721/1) "Molecular structure and function of the tight junction"

 since 2008

Liaison officer of the German Research Foundation (DFG) for Charité ‒ Universitätsmedizin Berlin

 2010 - 2012

Coordinator of German Research Foundation Research Unit (DFG FOR 721/2) "Molecular structure and function of the tight junction"

 since 2012

Editorial Board: Tissue Barriers

 2013 - 2014

Member: Joint Committee for Bioinformatics, Freie Universität Berlin and Charité ‒ Universitätsmedizin Berlin

 2015 - 2017

Editorial Board: Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology (CMGH)

 since 2019

Appointed member: Ethics Committee of Charité ‒ Universitätsmedizin Berlin

 since 2020

Editorial Board: International Journal of Molecular Sciences (IJMS)

 2020 - 2023 Member of the Steering Committee, DFG Research Training Group GRK 2318

 2020 - 2023

Associate Editor for Section Physiology: Biology (Basel)

 since 2023 Editor-in-Chief for Section Physiology: Biology (Basel)
   

 

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