Since April 2015, the pharmacologist and SFB 1112-principal investigator Dr. Sarah Hedtrich is 'Junior Professor' at the Institute of Pharmacology at Freie Universität Berlin.
For her excellent scientific contributions on inflammatory skin diseases, she was also awarded the annual award "Astellas Forschungspreis Dermatologie" (Astellas Research Award in Dermatolgy). The prize was awarded by Astellas Pharma GmbH in the frame of the 48th annual meeting of the Deutsche Dermatologische Gesellschaft (German Dermatologic Society) on April 30, 2015.

Together with Prof. Schäfer-Korting,  Prof. Hedtrich heads SFB 1112-project C02: In vitro disease models - test platform for the investigation of nanocarrier related transport, activity, and toxicity of drugs.

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