Amsterdam Neuroscience

Title: Innate immune activation in neurodegenerative disease
Michael Heneka studied medicine in Tübingen, Lausanne and London from 1990-1996. He took the chair as professor for molecular neurology at the Univ. of Münster in 2004. His scientific interests focus on the role of immune mechanisms in neurological disorders. In 2008, he was appointed professor for clinical neurosciences in Bonn. In 2011 he received the Christa Lorenz Award and in 2013 the Hans und Ilse Breuer Award. Since 2016 Prof. Heneka serves as the Chair of the Dept. of Neurodegenerative Disease and Geriatric Psychiatry at the Univ. of Bonn, and the Neuroinflammation group at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Disease (DZNE). Heneka serves as Associate Editor of Alzheimer Research & Therapy and on the editorial board of Molecular Neurobiology and Aging Brain. He organizes the “Venusberg Meeting on Neuroinflammation”.