Prof. Dr. Christoph Stein Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany

Christoph Stein underwent training in Anesthesiology, Pain Medicine and Neuropharmacology at Ludwig-Maximilians Universität (LMU) München, Germany, State University of New York, University of California Los Angeles, and Max-Planck-Institute for Psychiatry Martinsried, Germany. He was Full Professor at Johns Hopkins University and Research Associate at the National Institute of Drug Abuse... read moreBaltimore, and then assumed the Chair of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine at Freie Universitaet Berlin – Charité in 1997. His main research interests are molecular mechanisms and treatment of pain; opioid pharmacology; expression, signaling, recycling of opioid receptors in sensory neurons; conformational dynamics of opioid receptor-ligand interactions; expression, processing of opioid peptides in immune cells; clinical studies on mechanisms and treatment of postoperative, arthritic and neuropathic pain.