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In memory of Professor Dr. med. Dr. h. c. Kay Brune (1941–2025), Past President of the German Society for Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology and honorary member of the German Society for Pharmacology

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: The German Society for Pharmacology mourns the passing of its past president and honorary member Professor Dr. med.Dr. h. c.Kay Brune, who died on 28 September at the age of 84.With his death, the pharmacological community has lost one of its most outstanding representatives and a leading pioneer and architect in pharmacological pain and inflammation research in Germany.Kay Brune was born on 30 January 1941 in Freital (Saxony).From 1952 to 1961, he attended high school in Lüneburg (classical languages).He then studied medicine at the universities of Hamburg, Basel and Munich from 1961 to 1966, passing all his exams with distinction and being accepted into the German Academic Scholarship Foundation in 1963.He received his doctorate in 1967 in Hamburg and qualified as a specialist in pharmacology and toxicology in 1971.From 1967 to 1968, he worked as an assistant physician in Northeim (Lower Saxony), then from 1968 to 1969 and from 1970 to 1981 as an assistant, later senior physician (scientific adjunct) and private lecturer at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel (Switzerland), Department of Pharmacology.His academic teachers in Basel included Karl Bucher (pharmacology), Fritz Koller (haematology) and Georg L. Floersheim (transplantation biology).From 1969 to 1970, he was a visiting scientist at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and, in 1976, a visiting

Source: Naunyn-Schmiedeberg s Archives of Pharmacology

DOI: 10.1007/s00210-025-04837-x

Authors: Burkhard Hinz, Bertold Renner, Gerd Geisslinger