Handbook of Toxicogenomics: A Strategic View of Current Research and Applications

Jürgen Borlak received a degree in biochemistry and a PhD in biochemical toxicology at the University of Reading, UK, in 1988. He was a Cancer Research Campaign-founded postdoctoral research scientist and in 1990 joined the Marion Merrel Dow Research Institute in Strasbourg, France, as Senior Research Biochemist. In 1998, he was appointed Director of the Center of Drug Research and Molecular Pharmacology at the Fraunhofer Institute of Toxicology and Experimental Medicine; the centre focuses largely on the molecular effects of drugs and xenobiotics, using a wide range of methods and technologies in cell biology, genomics and molecular biology. In 2000 Jürgen Borlak was habilitated in pharmacology and toxicology and received the venia legendi at the Medical School of Hannover. In 2002 he was appointed as full professor to the chair of Pharmaco- and Toxicogenomics at the Medical School of Hannover. He was also appointed as Professor of Molecular Anatomy at the Medical Faculty of the University Leipzig in 2003.
Jürgen Borlak is a member of, among others, the Biochemical Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Society of Experimental Biology and the International Society for the Study of Xenobiotics. He is a reviewer for various scientific journals and appointed by the World Health Organisation as an expert on chemical and drug safety.