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
