Detlev Ganten

Detlev Ganten (born 1941 in Lüneburg) is a German pharmacologist and specialist in molecular medicine, and one of the leading scientists in the field of hypertension. He studied medicine at Würzburg, Montpellier and Tübingen, received his MD from the University of Tübingen in 1968 and his PhD from McGill University in 1973 after research at the Clinical Research Institute in Montreal. He worked at the Pharmacological Institute of the University of Heidelberg from 1973 to 1991 and became professor of pharmacology there in 1975. He was founding director of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin from 1991 to 2004 and then chief executive of the Charité University Medicine Berlin until 2008. He founded the World Health Summit in 2009 and has edited the Journal of Molecular Medicine since 1993.