Curriculum Vitae#

PERSONAL INFORMATION
Family name, First name: Zipp, Frauke
Nationality: German
Date of birth: 17 March 1963
Address Department of Neurology
University Medical Center of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Langenbeckstr. 1
55131 Mainz, Germany
Phone: +41-6131-17-7156
Fax: +49-6131-17-5697
e-mail: frauke.zipp@unimedizin-mainz.de
URL for web site: www.unimedizin-mainz.de/neuroimmunology


• EDUCATION
1989 – 1992 Residency in Neurology, Dept. of Neurology, J.W. Goethe University, Frankfurt
1986 – 1990 Dr. med. degree (Prof. Michael Frotscher), J.W. Goethe University, Frankfurt
1987 Clinical elective in London, England
1985 – 1986 Studies in North America (Duke University, North Carolina; Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto)
1982 – 1989 Medicine, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Stipend (“Studienstiftung d. Dt. Volkes”)

• CURRENT POSITION
2009 – Full Professor, Chair of the Department of Neurology at the University Medical Center Mainz, Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz

• PREVIOUS POSITIONS
2006 – 2009 W3 Professor at the Charité - University Medicine Berlin; Clinical Coordinator and Board Director at the Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine (Helmholtz), Berlin; Director of the Cecilie-Vogt-Clinic at Charité, Berlin
2002 – 2006 C3 Professor; Head of the Institute of Neuroimmunology, Charité, Berlin
1998 – 2002 Senior Physician, Department of Neurology, Charité, Berlin
1998 Full Boards in Neurology
1996 Visiting Scientist, National Institutes of Health, Division of Neuroimmunology, Bethesda, MD, USA (Prof. Henry Mc Farland and Prof. Roland Martin)
1995 – 1998 Fellowship and Habilitation in Neurology, Department of Neurology at Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen (Prof. Johannes Dichgans)
1993 – 1995 Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Neuroimmunology, Max Planck Institute, Martinsried (Prof. Hartmut Wekerle)

• FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2014 Conference-President of the International Society of Neuroimmunology Congress
2011 Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
2011 Alexander Karl Prize (Head/Neck Tumor Research Foundation)
2005 Pette-Prize (German Society of Neurology)
2003 Nils-Ilja-Richter Prize (Society of Autoimmunity) for Lancet (2003) work
1999 Research Prize (German Academy for Clinical Diagnosis)
1998 Langheinrich Prize from the Langheinrich Foundation for MS Research
1983 Stipend of the “Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes”