Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Neurologic Diseases/Harvard Medical School, Boston
1985-1989
PhD thesis, Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg
Major previous appointments
since 1999
Head of the Department of Metabolic Biochemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich
1995-1999
Professor of Molecular Biology at the Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim (University of Heidelberg)
1993-1995
Assistant Professor of Neurology at the Harvard Medical School
Activities in the Scientific Community / Professional Memberships
since 2012
Speaker of the DFG Excellence Cluster "Systems Neurology" (SyNergy)
since 2005
Member of the Board of Reviewers of Science
since 2000
Organization of the Annual International Eibsee Conference "Cellular Mechanisms of Alzheimer's Disease"
Honors and Awards
2018
Brain Prize (shared with Bart De Strooper, John Hardy & Michel Goedert)
2018
DFG Reinhart Koselleck Project
2017
AFTD Biomarker Award
2016
Elected Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
2016
Rolf Becker Award
2015
MetLife Award for Medical Research
2012
ERC advanced grant
2010
Honorary Degree of the University of Zurich
2006
Sheik Hamdan Award for Medical Sciences (in the category Biology of Aging)
2006
MetLife Foundation Promising Award for Medical Research
2002
Potamkin Award of the American Academy of Neurology (shared with Bart De Strooper)
2002
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Award of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft(DFG)
2002
Ernst Jung Award for Medicine
2002
Hansen Family Award
2000
International Alois Alzheimer Award
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