Curriculum vitaev

Molecular Neurodegeneration

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Christian Haass

Group Leader and Site Speaker

Head of the Department of Metabolic Biochemistry at the Biomedical Center at the LMU

Feodor-Lynen-Str. 17
81377 München

christian.haass@dzne.de

+49 89 4400-46549

Degrees
1990-1992	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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