Dr Robert Dallmann

Research Interests

Trained as a circadian biologist and in vivo pharmacologist, my research is focused on the interplay between the intricate internal timing system significantly modulating most physiological processes, and disease and pharmacotherapy. Understanding - on a mechanistic level - how circadian disruption can lead to and influence disease progression and treatment is the main focus. The perspective of his work include to significantly improve already existing treatment options and to aid in the development of new drugs.

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Scientific Inspiration

Nicholas Mrosovsky, PhD, FRSC (1934-2015). He has significantly contributed to entirely different fields of leatherback sea turtle conservation as well as physiology, where he first described the sliding setpoint principle, worked on hibernation and circadian biology. His work ethic was to be aspired to. Not only had he great passion for science, but he always scrutinised the details of the methods and results before drawing any conclusions; of his own data as much as those of others, for the benefit of the scientific community. Romanian born, and educated in Cambridge, UK, he worked in Toronto, Canada, for most of his career, and tongue-in-cheek displayed his FRSC certificate on the wall of the outhouse at his cabin in Ontario’s Cottage Country.