Christian Haass

Christian Haass (born 19 December 1960 in Mannheim, Germany) is a German biochemist who specializes in metabolic biochemistry and neuroscience.

Christian Haass
Born (1960-12-19) 19 December 1960
Mannheim
NationalityGerman
Known forAlzheimer's disease
AwardsErnst Jung Prize (2002)
Potamkin Prize (2002)
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (2002)
Metlife Foundation Award for Medical Research in Alzheimer's Disease (2015)
Brain Prize (2018)
Scientific career
Fieldsbiochemistry
neuroscience
InstitutionsLudwig Maximilian University of Munich

Haass studied biology in Heidelberg from 1981 to 1985. From 1990 on he was a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dennis Selkoe at Harvard Medical School, where he worked from 1993 to 1995 as an assistant professor. Afterwards he returned to Germany as professor of molecular biology at the Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim. In 1999 he was offered a Chair in the medical faculty at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

The emphasis of his work is in the molecular biology and cell biology of Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. Among other awards, he has won the Leibniz Prize and the Metlife Foundation Award for Medical Research in Alzheimer's Disease.[1]

References
  1. "MetLife Foundation Awards for Medical Research in Alzheimer's Disease" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 October 2018.

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