Current position
Prof. Dr. Harald HHW Schmidt is currently professor of Pharmacology at Maastricht University, Netherlands, and chairs the Department of Pharmacology and Personalised Medicine.

Education
Prof. Dr. Harald HHW Schmidt studied Pharmacy at the Lidwig-Maximilian-University Munich, and Medicine at the Universities of Freiburg and Berlin, Germany. He obtained is PhD in 1987 at the University Freiburg, and later habilitated at the University of Würzburg, Germany. He did his postdoctoral training at Northwestern University, Chicago, with the later Nobel laureate Ferid Murad. He held chairs in Pharmacology at the University of Gießen, Germany, and Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. He was awarded an ERC Advanced Investigator Grant and is running the Horizon Europe platform project REPO4EU (https://repo4.eu).

Research area
Prof. Dr. Harald HHW Schmidt works in Systems Medicine to redefine diseases mechanistically and translate this via big data, diagnostics and drug repurposing for rapid clinical validation and application.

Conflict of interest
None