Our research in experimental pharmacology and cellular signal transduction focuses on understanding the molecular mechanisms of drugs that play an important role in inflammatory and immunological processes. In other words, we want to understand the mode of action of drugs that interact with receptors and signalling pathways to foster the development of drugs for the therapy of inflammatory diseases. Immunopharmacological concepts, and particularly the characterization of potentially novel immunomodulatory drugs, such as Toll-like receptor modulators and synthetic peptides, are at the core of our research activities. Current investigations also focus on the regulation of inflammatory responses by autophagy and the mechanisms of lysosomotropic drugs at the molecular level.