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Josef Dudel
Josef Dudel
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Josef Dudel’s career began as a heart physiologist. In collaboration with Wolfgang Trautwein, he performed groundbreaking electrophysiological experiments in isolated heart muscle fibres. In addition, he introduced several new methodological techniques, among others the liquid filament switch, which led to a completely new understanding of glutamate receptor kinetics. Josef Dudel was born in 1930 in Küstrin, he received his doctoral degree in Heidelberg in 1957 and achieved his habilitation in cardiovascular physiology in 1962. In 1971, he was appointed Professor and Director of the Physiological Institute at the Technical University Munich, where he worked until his retirement in 1998. Even today he continues to perform experiments there in his own lab. From 1991 to 1997, he was dean of the medical faculty of the TU Munich. He was a member of a large number of committees, among others in the senate of the German Research Council, and in the board of governors of the German-Israel Foundation for Scientific Research and Development (GIF). In 1982 he received the Federal Cross of Merit. |
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