Prof. Dr. Dr. Jens Pahnke, EFN

Curriculum Vitae

Prof. Jens Pahnke is head of the Research Laboratory for Neurodegenerative Diseases (NRL) and the mouse house at the Center for Neurology. Since 2005, he is professor of neurodegeneration at the University of Rostock.
He graduated in medicine and human biology at the University of Greifswald. At Greifswald earned his doctorate in 2000 as MD at the medical faculty. Ongoing he spent a year as postdoc at the Clinic of Neurology of the Center for Neurology at the University of Rostock. Then Prof. Pahnke joined the Department of Pathology at the University Hospital Zurich (USZ). He earned his second doctorate in 2004 in the field of molecular biology. Since 2005, Prof. Pahnke teaches at the University of Rostock. He is an expert in the field of the function of blood-brain barrier transport molecules, specific mitochondrial mutations and new mouse models for studying the formation of protein aggregates in neurodegenerative diseases.

In 2008, he became the first German who was elected the "European Fellow of Neuropathology (EFN)” and received in 2009 the Research Award of the Alzheimer's Association Research Initiative

Professor Pahnke is member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease (JAD), Frontiers in Neurodegenerative Diseases and Frontiers in Alzheimer's Disease and of the Grant Reviewing Board of the Alzheimer's Association.

At the DZNE site Magdeburg, Prof. Pahnke conducts the biomarker and autopsy studies and translational basic research projects.