Rainer Liedtke

Rainer Kurt Liedtke (16 September 1943 – 15 September 2012) was a German physician, scientist and entrepreneur who specialised in the theory and practice of biomedical information systems and medical innovation, and new therapies of pain, stress, cell degeneration.

Background

Liedtke was born September 16, 1943, in Königsberg, East Prussia, and died September 15, 2012, in Grünwald, Bavaria. Doctor's degree in medicine: Biochemical studies on DNA and RNA (Institute of physiological Chemistry, University of Bonn); Institute of Pharmacology University of Bonn; Physician at hospital for several years (i. a Women Hospital University of Bonn) and initial research, i.a. by order of the German Research Foundation; Hereafter several years pharmaceutical industry (i.a. as director of clinical research at Squibb, medical director at E. Lilly), parallel work as a university lecturer for pharmacology (i.a. University of Regensburg), invited lectures (Pharmacology) at i.a. University of Frankfurt. Company founder (i.a. American Pharmed Labs, renamed to EpiCept) and its Chairman & CEO for several years.^[1] Member of various scientific associations in the areas of pharmacology, endocrinology, biological chemistry.

Inventions and medical developments

These include

Scientific publications, medical specialist books, medical information for patients, more than 100 international patent applications (focus: drug therapy, information technology). Books: i.a. 'Introduction in drug therapy' (in German; with K. Karzel, University of Bonn),[12] 'Dictionary of clinical pharmacology' (in German; Editor),^[13] Drugs – a translator for patients,^[14] 'Pharmacology and clinical use of ACE inhibitors' (with F. Gross, University of Heidelberg), 'Relative Intelligence'. Scripts and articles on related areas (e.g. general pharmacology, biological intelligence, artificial intelligence), critical statements on new biological developments (e.g. genomics, gene food), partly also in an own medical blog.

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