- born 1944 in Ahlerstedt/Germany
- Education:
- High School,
- University (grant of “Studienstiftung des dt. Volkes”);
- MD Med. Faculty;
- Habilitation (Anatomy and Embryology)
- Positions held:
- Research assistant Dept of Anatomy, Marburg;
- Associate Professor, Erlangen;
- Full professor and head of the Department, Erlangen
- President Academy of Science and Literature, Mainz;
- Associate Editor (IOVS)
- Vice-president of the Union of the German Academies of Sciences.
Honors:
- Award of the “Stifterverband” (Mainz/Germany) ;
- Glaucoma Award (Heidelberg);
- Albrecht-von Graefe-Award (DOG Heidelberg);
- Endre Balazs Price (at ICER-meeting);
- Bayerischer Maximilians-Orden (for science ant art by the Bavarian Minister-President);
- Affiliation with the “Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina (Halle);
- Award of the Intern. Glaucoma Symp.”, Florenz;
- Ernst-H. Bárány Prize (ICER-Congress Sidney (Australia);
- twice: ALCON Research Institute Annual Award, Fort Worth/Texas;
- Helen Keller Prize for Vis. and Res. (ARVO, Fort Lauderdale);
- Verdienstorden des Landes Rheinland Pfalz (by the Minister-President of Rheinland Pfalz).
Elke Lütjen-Drecoll |
- Functional morphology of the eye
- Ageing
- Presbyopia
- Glaucoma
- Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)
- International Society for Eye Research (ISER)
- Glaucoma Society; European Vision Institute (EEIG);
- Deutsche Ophthalmologische Gesellschaft (DOG)
- Member in the Editorial Board of 7 Ophthalmic Journals;
- Associate Editor “Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science (IOVS)
- Editor of six other journals
- President of the Academy of Science and Literature, Mainz Germany
- Vice-president of the Union of the German Academies of Sciences
Publications
- Neumann C, Yu A, Welge-Lüßen U, Lütjen-Drecoll E
The effect of TGF-β2 on elastin, type VI collagen, and components of the proteolytic degradation system in human optic nerve astrocytes
Invest Ophthalm Vis Sci 2008, 49(4): 1464-1472, 2008 - Scholz M, Buder T, Seeber S, Adamek E, Becker CM, Lütjen-Drecoll E.
Dependency of Intraocular Pressure Elevation and Glaucomatous Changes in DBA/2J and DBA/2J-Rj Mice.
Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2008 Feb;49(2):613-21, 2008. - Fuchshofer R, Welge-Lüßen U, Lütjen-Drecoll E, Birke M
Biochemical and morphological analysis of basement membrane component expression in corneoscleral and cribriform human trabecular meshwork cells
IOVS Vol 47 No 3: 794-801, 2006 - Nilsson S F E, Drecoll E, Lütjen-Drecoll E, Toris C B, Krauss A H-P, Kharlamb A, Nieves A, Guerra T, Woodward D F
The prostanoid EP2 receptor agonist Butaprost increases uveoscleral outflow in the Cynomolgus monkey
IOVS Vol 47 No 9: 4042-4049, 2006 - Bachmann B, Birke M, Kook D, Eichhorn M, Lütjen-Drecoll E
Ultrastructural and biochemical evaluation of the porcine anterior chamber perfusion model
IOVS Vol 47 No 5:2011-2020, 2006 - Gottanka J, Kuhlmann A, Scholz M, Johnson DH, Lütjen-Drecoll E
Pathophysiologic changes in the optic nerves of eyes with primary open angle and pseudoexfoliation glaucoma.
Invest Ophthalmol & Vis Sci, Vol 46 No 11, 2005
- Fuchshofer R, Birke M, Welge-Luessen U, Kook D, Lütjen-Drecoll E
Transforming growth factor-β2 modulated extracellular matrix component expression in cultured human optic nerve head astrocytes
Invest Ophthalmol & Vis Sci, Vol 46 No 2 : 568-578, 2005 - Ohlmann AV, Adamek E, Ohlmann E, Lütjen-Drecoll E.
Norrie gene production is necessary for repression of hyaloid vessels
Invest Ophthalmol & Vis Sci, Vol 45 No 7: 2384-2390, 2004
- May CA, Neuhuber W, Lütjen-Drecoll E
Immunohistochemical classification and functional morphology of human choroidal ganglion cells
Invest Ophthalmol & Vis Sci, Vol 45 No 2 : 361-367, 2004
- Gottanka J, Chan D, Eichhorn M, Lütjen-Drecoll E, Ethier R
Effects of TGF-β2 in perfused human eyes.
Invest Ophthalmol & Vis Sci, Vol 45 No 1: 153-158, 2004
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