Uwe Rohr
Uwe Rohr (born 1956, deceased 2016) was a German pharmacist and medical scientist known for his research on steroid hormones, their relationship with stress and the immune system, and how all of this is involved in the pathophysiology and treatment of severe mental diseases, infectious diseases and oncological diseases.
Life[edit]
The son of working-class parents, Uwe Rohr was the first in his family to graduate from high school. He first studied pharmacy and obtained his PhD and Habilitation degrees at the University of Bonn. In the years 1982 to 1989, Uwe Rohr was a professor at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City. Thereupon he studied medicine and had a clinical training in gynecology at the University of Essen under the supervision of Adolf Eduard Schindler, followed by seven years of training in internal medicine under the supervision of Katrin Saeger Lorenz. Since 2002 he was living in Vienna where he was working on publications about menopause, cancer and severe mental diseases together with Anca Gabriella Gocan. In 2014 he founded the company Endobal together with a Viennese businessman with the aim being the development of drugs for treatment of brain tumors in children and of severe mental diseases in soldiers. In the last three years of his life, he was mainly working on scientific publications together with Claus Volko.
Scientific Achievement[edit]
Uwe Rohr was interested in the pharmacodynamics of soy isoflavones such as daidzein and genistein. It is commonly accepted by medical scientists that soy isoflavones have similar effects as the adiols (androstanediol and androstenediol), which are steroid hormones that naturally appear in the human organism, including anti-inflammatory and anti-androgenic effects. However, Uwe Rohr was of the opinion that soy isoflavones did not exert this effect directly but rather indirectly by stimulating the conversion of other steroid hormones into adiols. Moreover, he suggested that there are two types of steroid hormones: One type is released as a reaction to stress, boosts physical performance and weakens the immune system. The other type, which the adiols belong to, has exactly the opposite effect. Uwe Rohr believed that by converting what he called stress hormones into immunity hormones, severe mental diseases, infectious diseases and even cancer could be effectively treated.
Support for people with high intellectual ability[edit]
Besides to science, one of the topics Uwe Rohr was most interested in was high intellectual ability and how people with such ability were often discriminated against by their less talented counterparts in academia. He sought to actively support young university graduates with high intellectual ability to enable them to make a career that would allow them to make use of their abilities for the benefit of humanity. [1]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Höchstbegabtenförderung - Ein Wiener Ansatz" (PDF). Mensa Austria. Retrieved 2018-04-15.
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