Frank Bradke#
| Membership Number: | 4762 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2018 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.dzne.de/en/research/research-areas/fundamental-research/research-groups/bradke/research-areasfocus |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2015 - present Member of the Strategy Board, DZNE
- 2013 - present Topic Speaker Molecular Signaling, Helmholtz Research Programme of Diseases of the Nervous System.
- April 2011-present Senior Research Group Leader at Full Professor level (W3) German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases(DZNE), Bonn; Full Professorship at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn
- 2003 - 2011 Independent Junior Research Group Leader at Associate Professor level (C3) Max-Planck Institute for Neurobiology, Martinsried
- 2000 - 2002 Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of California, San Francisco & Stanford University (both HHMI) with Prof. Dr. M. Tessier-Lavigne (HFSP & EMBO Fellow)
- 1995 - 1999 Ph.D. Student, Cell Biology Programme, EMBL, Heidelberg with Dr. C. Dotti
Fields of Scholarship
- Axon regeneration
- Axon growth
- Cytoskeleton
- Neuronal polarity
Honours and Awards
- 2016 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Prize DFG - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- 2014 Member Leopoldina, German National Academy of Sciences, Halle
- 2013 Member EMBO, Heidelberg
- 2011 Schellenberg-Prize IRP, Zurich
- 2007 Selected Top 100 heads of tomorrow Initiative of the Government of Germany
