Frank Buttgereit
Professor Frank Buttgereit is a senior consultant and deputy head of Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology at the Charité, University Medicine in Berlin. He also directs a liaison research group at the Deutsche Rheumaforschungszentrum.
Dr Buttgereit’s expertise is in the treatment of a wide variety of musculoskeletal and rheumatic diseases including osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, myositis and different forms of vasculitis. Other research interests include glucocorticoid therapy, bioenergetics of immune functions, osteoblast research, COX 2-selective inhibitors and cellular activation mechanisms in musculoskeletal diseases.
Dr Buttgereit is internationally recognized for his work on mechanisms of glucocorticoid actions and on bioenergetics of immune functions and has been principal investigator in a variety of clinical studies on effects of anti-inflammatory agents in patients with rheumatic disease.
Dr Buttgereit received his Dr. med. (1988) and his Habilitation in Internal Medicine (1997) from the Humboldt University Berlin. He was the recipient of research awards in 1988 (Humboldt price) and 2002 (Schuler award) and has received scholarships in 1990 (Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation), 1992-94 and 1996 (DAAD). He is currently on the editorial board of several journals among them Rheumatology, Arthritis Research & Therapy, Z Rheumatol and Inflammopharmacology.
Dr Buttgereit is author of 152 publications as listed in PubMed (as of June 20100; Buttgereit-F); http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?CMD=search&DB=PubMed
