Irina Petrache studied Medicine at the Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania, she received her MD in 1992. Since 2001 he has been Full Professor and Acting Chair at the University of Duisburg-Essen’s Department of Molecular Biology in Essen, Germany. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA. Between 20 he served as an Associate Professor at the Department of Immunology, St. From 1994 to 2000 he held a Research Scientist and Assistant Professor position at the Institute of Physiology, University of Tübingen, Germany, where, in 1996, he became Professor for Physiology (Habilitation) at the Faculty of Medicine. From 1992 to 1994 he was a clinical trainee and postdoctoral fellow at the University of San Diego’s Department of Rheumatology and at the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, California, USA. He received his MD from Heidelberg University in 1992. Together with Volume 216 by the same editors, the collection represents a unique, comprehensive work on sphingolipids, providing information on both sphingolipids’ basic biology (including synthesis, metabolism and cell biology) and their important function in a (patho-)physiological context.Įrich Gulbins studied medicine at Heidelberg University, Germany, Guy’s Hospital in London, UK and the Medical School in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. The book is intended for scientists in pharmacology, biochemistry and cell biology with a focus on biomedical research as well as for clinicians working in pharmacology, oncology, cardiology, neurology and infectious disease.

The second part of this first volume focuses on drug development and pharmacology. In the first part basic functions of sphingolipids are described, as well as the genetics of important enzymes, sphingolipid metabolism and synthesis. This book on sphingolipids provides insights into the basics of sphingolipid biology and drug development, with a particular emphasis on the sphingolipid derivative ceramide. They have an important function in signaling mechanisms in the cell. Sphingolipids are lipid components of the plasma membrane in eukaryotic cells.

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