Michael Thomas Heneka#

Present and Previous Positions

• Head of the Neurodegeneration Outpatient Unit (KBFZ)
• Director of the Clinical Neurosciences Unit (CNU)
• Since March 2008 Full.-Prof. of Clinical Neuroscience, Dept. of Neurology, University of Bonn
• Since Juli 2007 Head, DFG-Clinical Research Center KFO 177 “Innate Immunity in Chronic Neurodegeneration”
• 2007 Board member, German Ministry of Research and Education “Network of competence for neurodegenerative dementias”
• 2004 – 2008 Associate Prof. of Neurology, Head of the Molecular Neurology Unit at the Dept. of Neurology, University of Münster
• 2004 – 2004 Senior clinical fellow, Department of Neurology, University of Bonn
• 2003 – 2003 Postdoctoral fellow, Dept. of Neuroscience, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA
• 1999 – 2003 Clinical resident, Department of Neurology, University of Bonn
• 1996 – 1998 Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Neurology, University of Tübingen

• Mechanisms of neurodegeneration: posttranslational protein modification, aggregatopathies
• Glial cell biology
• Neuroinflammation: microglial and astroglial phenotypes in neurodegenerative disease (AD, PD, MS)
• Innate immune signaling
• Aminergic brain stem nuclei and related transmitter systems, locus ceruleus biologya
• Dementia and in particular diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer disease, FTD and LBD patients
• Motoneuron disease
• Septic encephalopathy

• 1998 Thesis award, University of Tübingen
• 2011 Christa Lorenz-ALS-Research Award
• 2013 Hans und Ilse Breuer Forschungspreis

Curriculum Vitae

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