Douwe Breimer

Douwe Breimer Durk (* November 24, 1943 in Workum ) is a Dutch pharmacologist.

Life

The son of Ids Breimer (* 1908) and Johanna Hoeckstra studied from 1962 to 1970 at the University of Groningen. He received his doctorate on 1 January 1974 at the Radboud University Nijmegen, the treatise pharmacokinetics of hypnotic drugs (freely translated into German: The pharmacokinetics of hypnotic drugs). He was appointed Professor of Mathematics and Natural Sciences with the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Leiden due to a royal decision of 14 April 1975. This office entrusted to him, he took up on 1 May 1975 and held on October 29, 1976 his introductory speech Farmacotherapie op maat ( freely translated into German: pharmacotherapy to measure).

On 3 November 1981 his area of ​​expertise has been extended to pharmacotherapy and on 24 April 1986, he joined the medical faculty. In 1987 he became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences. During that time he wrote a number of scientific papers and books. He was from 1992 to 2001 director of the Center for pharmaceutical research Leiden / Amsterdam and was elected in 2001 as rector of Leiden's alma mater. This office he gave in 2007, when he became Professor Emeritus, to his successor, Paul van der Heijden.

Breimer were also received many international awards. Thus, the Ghent University, Uppsala University, the Semmelweis University in Budapest, the University of Navarra, the Hiroshima University in Tokyo, the University of London and the University of Montreal have awarded him honorary doctorates. He is since October 2, 2006 Honorary Citizen of suffering.