Torsten Schoneberg
| Title: | Chair, Molecular Biochemistry (MD, PhD) |
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| Phone: | Work +1-49 341-3550-850, Fax +1-49 341-3550-855 |
| Organization: | University of Leipzig |
| Department: | Dept. Molecular Biochemistry, Medical Faculty |
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Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig, Germany |
| Website: | http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&u=http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~biochem/schoberg.html&prev=/search%3Fq%3DUniversity%2Bof%2BLeipzig%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8 |
From the very beginning of his medical training, Torsten Schöneberg found himself interested in investigative medicine. His career in medical research began in the early 1990's in immunology, but it was a chance meeting between his boss and Dr. Jurgen Wess that led him to NDI research. A casual inquiry about Dr. Wess's involvement with the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Maryland lead to Dr. Schöneberg accepting a fellowship at the NIH. There he joined an NDI research project led by Dr. Wess.
Dr. Schöneberg was born and raised in Berlin, Germany. He went to medical school in Greifswald near the Baltic Sea in the northern part of Germany. After completing his work with Dr. Wess in the US, he returned to his hometown of Berlin where he was associated with the Institute of Pharmacology at the Free University of Berlin.
 University of Leipzig Max-Planck Institute Leipzig, Germany |
Dr. Schöneberg hopes that the work he has done in conjunction with Dr. Wess will lead to gene therapy techniques to rescue the non-functioning V2R gene segments responsible for X-linked NDI in humans. This work, together with research being done on other receptor related diseases such as retinitus pigmentosis, looks very promising for providing effective gene therapies. In terms of treatment, Dr. Schöneberg feels that the work on diruretics being done by Daniel Bichet and Nine Knoers is producing very valuable results.
Torsten is married, has two children (daughter and son) and enjoys spending as much of his free time as possible with his family. He also likes to roller skate in the summer, in the wintertime he moves indoors to play squash. He also tries to find time every year for a trip into the Alps for downhill skiing. Medicine follows him home, too, where he lives with another physician. She is a gynecologist.
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