Carsten Culmsee is Professor of Clinical Pharmacy and Vice Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Marburg. He graduated at University of Marburg and received his Dr. rer. nat. degree in 1997. After a postdoctoral term at the Sanders Brown Research Center on Aging at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA (1999-2000) and positions as group leader and lecturer at the University of Marburg (2000-2003) and the Centre of Drug Research, University of Munich, Germany (2003-2007), he returned in 2007 to the University of Marburg as a full professor for Clinical Pharmacy. His research focus is on the regulation of mitochondrial integrity and function in programmed cell death, inflammation and metabolic impairment contributing to neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, in ischemic brain damage, and in psychiatric diseases. In addition to his experimental work, he also leads a group in Clinical Pharmacy where he guides research in the clinic and in public pharmacies on contribution of pharmacists in drug safety and interprofessional patient care.He is member of national and international scientific societies of Pharmacology, Neurosciences and Cell Death, and he is an editorial board member of the journals Apoptosis, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology; Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, Journal of Neurochemistry and Journal of Neuroscience. https://www.cmbb-fcmh.de/de/forschung/mitglieder/carsten-culmsee