1. Current Status, Position

Dr Martin Hug (Registered Pharmacist, PhD) is Chief Pharmacist since 2011 at the Medical Center – University of Freiburg, Germany, and Lecturer at the Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences.

Previously, Dr Martin Hug was Research Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA. In 2001 he was appointed research assistant at the Institute of Physiology II, University of Münster. After a brief episode in the pharmaceutical industry as head of laboratory at Aventis Pharma Germany, Dr. Hug moved back to Freiburg working as hospital pharmacist since 2003 at the Medical Center – University of Freiburg. 

2. Education

Dr Martin Hug studied Pharmacy at Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg and became licenced pharmacist in 1992. Three years later he received a Ph.D. degree in pharmaceutical chemistry after which Dr Martin Hug spent 6 years at the Institute of Physiology, University Freiburg. In 2013 he submitted his post-doctoral thesis (Habilitation) for clinical pharmacy.

3. Research Area

The focus of Dr Martin Hug’s lab is the research on electrolyte transport by exocrine glands with an emphasis on the pathophysiology of Cystic Fibrosis (CF) and the developement techniques to perform therapeutic drug monitoring of novel agents to treat CF. He also focuses his research on studies of stability of complex analgetic mixtures and the effect of leachables/extractables on parenteral solutions.

Dr Martin Hug is board certified specialist in clinical pharmacy.

4. Conflict of interest: none