He is also co-author and co-editor of a major German language Pharmacology Textbook (Aktories, Förstermann, Hofmann, Starke, Allgemeine und spezielle Pharmakologie und Toxikologie, Elsevier, Munich, 2017 . Ulrich Förstermann was President of the Federation of European Pharmacological Societies (EPHAR) from 2010 to 2012 and President-Elect of EPHAR from 2008 to 2010. Ulrich Förstermann was also Vice-Chairman of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Pharmakologie (German Society for Pharmacology) from 2006 to 2011. Förstermann is the recipient of several awards and honors including the Goedecke/Warner Lambert Research Award from the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (1979); the Fritz Kuelz Award in Pharmacology from the German Society of Pharmacology and Toxicology (DGPT, 1986) [3]; the Rudolph Schoen Award from the Hannover Medical School (1989); a Heisenberg Scholarship from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Council), Bonn, Germany (1989–1993, returned prematurely in 1991). In 2014, Förstermann was awarded the Rodolfo Paoletti Medal for Distinction in European Pharmacology by EPHAR.. In 2017 he received the Ariëns Award of the Nederlandse Vereniging voor Farmacologie – Dutch Pharmacological Society for his groundbreaking research in the area of molecular pharmacology.