Prof. Dr. Frank Bradke

Curriculum Vitae

Frank Bradke studied Biochemistry, Anatomy and Developmental Biology at the Freie Universität Berlin and the University College London. In 1994, he received a B.Sc. degree in Anatomy and Developmental Biology and in 1995 a degree in Biochemistry. During his thesis, he conducted research at the EMBL, Heidelberg. In 1999, he earned his PhD from the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg.
Thereafter, in 2000, as a postdoctoral fellow he moved to Prof. Marc Tessier-Lavigne's laboratory at the University of California, San Francisco and Stanford.  Then, in 2003, he became a Max Planck Institute Research Group Leader at the MPI of Neurobiology, Martinsried.
In 2009, Frank Bradke habilitated in Neurobiology at the Ludwig Maximilians-University Munich. He joined the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) Bonn in 2011, where he became full professor and Senior Research Groupleader. Together with his group members he works on Axonal Growth and Regeneration.

Received scholarships and awards at a glance:

• Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (1992-1995)
• EMBO long-term fellow (2000)
• HFSP (Human Frontier Science Program long term fellow (2001-2002)
• CDA award from HFSP (2003)
• Selected Top 100 heads of tomorrow (2007)
• IRP-Schellenberg Prize (2011)