Mathias Hallberg
Professor at Institutionen för farmaceutisk biovetenskap; Forskning; Neurofarmakologi och biologisk beroendeforskning
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 41 41
- Mobile phone:
- +46 70 727 02 32
- Fax:
- +46 18 50 19 20
- E-mail:
- mathias.hallberg@uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Biomedicinskt centrum BMC, Husargatan 3
- Postal address:
- Box 591
751 24 UPPSALA
More information is available to staff who log in.
Short presentation
Master of Science (Fil mag), Lund University and Teacher Training Program (Ämneslärarutbildning), Malmö Högskola in 1999. Doctor of Pharmacy in 2005 and Docent in Pharmacology, Uppsala University in 2007. Senior Lecturer in 2010. Appointed to Professor in 2016. Dean - Faculty of Pharmacy from 2020.
Was awarded the Oscar Prize in 2009 and The Best Teacher Award (Pedagogiska priset) in 2013, both from Uppsala University. Promoted to Excellent teacher in 2016. UU Innovation award 2022.
Biography
Research project: The impact of addictive drugs on cognition; memory and learning and efforts to identify unique analgesics and cognitive enhancers.
The research program comprises of three parts, part A, part B and part C. Part A has a focus on the impact of addictive drugs (anabolic androgenic steroids, opioids, GHB etc.) and hormones (growth hormone etc.) on important biochemical and physiological processes that are associated with drug dependence, behaviour and cognition. The effects of these substances on e.g. learning and memory in animal models are examined. Part B represents a drug discovery project derived from our findings in the tachykinin and renin-angiotensin systems (RAS) and that is aimed at identifying new classes of analgesics with potential use in the treatment of neuropathic pain. Part C has a focus on the discovery of unique cognitive enhancers. The proteolytic processing of neuropeptides to small bioactive peptide fragments and the influences of these fragments on neuropeptide systems in brain structures that are linked to cognition are explored (e.g. hippocampus).
