Prof. Dr. med. habil. Dr. rer. nat.

Vladimir Todorov

Chair holder

Faculty of Health (School of Medicine)  |  Chair of Physiology and Pathophysiology

Deputy Spokesman

Faculty of Health (School of Medicine)  |  Centre for Biomedical Education and Research


Research

  • Regeneration, development and ageing
  • Sex-specific regulation of kidney function
  • Interactions between stem cells and the immune system
  • Blood pressure regulation, vascular physiology and endothelial function
  • Pathomechanisms of diabetic nephropathy

Employees

Prof Bayram Edemir

Dr Lubomir Lubomirov

Dr Jennifer König

Dr Nicole Schary

Dr Timm Schreiber

PD Dr Natascha Wolff (em.)

Shobika Karuppusamy

Michelle Maaß

Stephanie Probst

Bettina Scharner

Prof Frank Thévenod (em.)


Resume

10/2023 - today
Professor and Chair
Chair of Physiology and Pathophysiology
Witten/Herdecke University

10/2023 - today
Visiting professor
Experimental Nephrology
Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus
TU Dresden

02/2018 - 09/2023
Extraordinary professorship for Physiology
Institute of Physiology
Faculty of Medicine
TU Dresden

11/2015
Specialist Physiologist of the German Physiological Society (DFG)

12/2010 - 09/2023
Head of Experimental Nephrology
University Hospital Dresden
TU Dresden;
Contract lecturer at the Institute of Physiology
Faculty of Medicine
TU Dresden

2006 - 2009
Postdoctoral university lecturing qualification in physiology
University of Regensburg
Topic: "Molecular mechanisms of renin transcription"

05/2006 - 12/2010
Scientific assistant/councillor and research group leader
Institute of Physiology
University of Regensburg

09/2005
Doctoral studies, Dr. rer. nat.
Institute of Physiology
University of Regensburg

11/1998 - 04/2006
Research assistant
Institute of Physiology
University of Regensburg

02/1996 - 10/1998
Research Assistant
Institute of Physiology
Medical University of Sofia, Bulgaria

10/1995
Dr med.
Medical University of Sofia, Bulgaria

1989 - 1995
Study of medicine
Faculty of Medicine
Medical University of Sofia, Bulgaria

1989
Higher education entrance qualification
English grammar school, Sofia, Bulgaria


Teaching

Physiology consultation hours
Semester I, II, III
Medicine degree programme


Press expert for

  • Kidney function
  • Human physiology/functions of the body

Further information

Member:
German Physiological Society (DFG)

 

Selected prizes and awards:

2008
Travel Grant, Meeting of International and European Societies of Hypertension

2007
Fellow's Award, Nephrological Forum, Munich

2005
Basic Science Young Investigator Award, European Kidney Research Association (EKRA)/European Renal Association (ERA)/European Dialysis and Transplant Association (EDTA)

2003
Travel Award, FEBS Special Meeting on Signal Transduction

1995
Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Vienna, Austrian Ministry of Science, Education and Culture