Christian Haass#


Christian Haass
Membership Number:2074
Membership type:ORDINARY
Section:PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE
Elected:2000
Main Country of Residence:GERMANY
Homepage(s):http://www.biochemie.abi.med.uni-muenchen.de/dzne_munich/staff/professors/haass/index.html





Present and Previous Positions
  • Since 2009 Speaker of the German Center for Neurodegenerative Disorders (DZNE) in Munich
  • Since 1999 Professor of Biochemistry (C4) and head of the Department of Metabolic Biochemistry at the Adolf-Butenandt Institute (Ludwig- Maximilians-University, Munich)
  • 1995 Professor (C3) 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

Fields of Scholarship
  • Metabolic biochemistry
  • Neuroscience

Honours and Awards
  • 1990 Award of the Heidelberg Society for Molecular Biology for the best Ph.D. thesis
  • 1996 Organon Research Award
  • 1997 Award of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences
  • 2000 International Alois Alzheimer Award
  • 2002 Family Hansen Award
  • 2002 Ernst Jung Award for Medicine
  • 2002 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Award of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
  • 2002 Potamkin Award of the American Academy of Neurology
  • 2006 MetLife Foundation Award for Medical Research
  • 2006 "Sheik Hamdan Award for Medical Sciences"(in the category Biology of Aging)
  • 2006 Dittner Award for Alzheimer Research
  • 2010 Honorary Degree of the University of Zurich
  • 2012 ERC advanced grant
  • 2018 The Brain Prize
  • Professional Memberships
    • Member of the Society for Neuroscience
    • Member of the Academia Europaea
    • Elected member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
    • Member of the Senate of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
    • Member of the board of the Alzheimer International Foundation
    • Member of the board of Hans und Ilse Breuer Foundation
    • Member of the Leopoldina


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