Peter Riederer
Peter Franz Riederer
Univ.-Prof., Univ.-Doz., Dipl.-Ing., Dr.
Clinical Neurochemistry, Dept. of Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy
University of Wuerzburg, Medical School
Füchsleinstr. 15, 97080 Würzburg, Germany
Date of birth: 21st March 1942, Königsberg, Germany
1960-1968: Studies on Technical Chemistry at the TU Vienna, Austria; 1970: Doctor Degree; 1979: Associate Professor (Univ.-Dozent) TU Vienna; 1983: titl. A.o. Univ.-Prof. TU Vienna, Austria; 1986 – current; from 1971 to 1986 I was Head of Clinical Neurochemistry at the thereof Ludwig Boltzmann Institute, Lainz Hospital, Vienna, Austria. Since 1986 Univ.-Prof. (University Würzburg); Head, Clinical Neurochemistry; Dept. of Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Wuerzburg, Germany.
After my retirement on April 1st 2010 I am senior professor at the later Institute and University.
14 international awards and Honorary Memberships in Scientific Societies; Member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina (2007); Honorary Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2007); Honorary Dr. degree Int. Univ. Catalunya, Barcelona (2008); Involved in several Current International Joint Projects; Current assistance in several scientific Journals;Board Memberships: President of the (DGBP) German Society of Biological Psychiatry 1994-1998; President of the (ESCNP) European Society for Clinical Neuropharmacology (1995/96); President of the (DPG) German Parkinson Society 2000-2004 (Vice president until 2000); Organizing Chairman World Congr. Biol Psych. 2001, Berlin; President 16th Int. Symp. Parkinson’s Disease 2005, Berlin; Honorary Membership of the German Society of Biological Psychiatry (2006); President 39th Int. Danube Symp. Neurol Sciences 2007, Würzburg; President 1st Int. ADHD Congress 2007, Würzburg; Honorary President of the German Society of Parkinson’s Disease (2007); Member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina (2007); Honorary Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2007); Honorary Dr. degree Int. Univ. Catalunya, Barcelona (2008); Honorary Plaque of the WFN Association of Parkinson’s Disease and Related Disorders (2011);
Membership in 15 scientific societies; Organizer of numerous symposia, workshops, congresses; Publications and lectures: about 1.000 scientific papers in the field of neurology and psychiatry, including hand-book articles; 20 books relevant to the field of psychiatry and neurology; Head Brain Bank Center Würzburg and BrainNet EuropeII subgroup
Main scientific interest
My main interests in the past have been research projects in the field of neuropsychiatry, especially introduction of selegiline into the treatment strategies of Parkinson’s disease (PD) (1974/5), discovery with my co-workers of amantadines and memantines mechanisms of action (1989, 1991), discovery of the role of iron in PD (1985 – present), discovery of the loss of respiratory chain activity (complex I) in PD (1989), development of the concept of clinical neuroprotection (1983 – present), neurodevelopmental aspects of neuropsychiatric disorders (2001 – present), etiological aspects of neurodegenerative disorders.
I have a close relation to clinical research programs, human biochemistry/physiology, biochemical, molecular and pharmacological aspects of pathogenesis of neurodegenerative disorders including post mortem analysis and access to the BrainNet Europe II-initiative. This is reflected by my list of more than 1.000 publications