Lendeckel, Uwe

Uwe Lendeckel is a Reader at the Institute of Experimental InternalMedicine at the Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg, Germany.After his study of pharmacology and toxicology he received his Ph.D inbiochemistry in 1990 from the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University ofGreifswald. His thesis on the "expression of the pro-opiomelanocortingene in rat Islets of Langerhans and other tissues" stimulated hisinterest in the neuro-immunological cross-talk and the regulatoryroles of cell surface proteases therein. In 1989 he joined theectopeptidase research group at the University of Magdeburg and sinc...