Günter U. Höglinger

Prof. Günter U. Höglinger heads the Institute for Translational Neurodegeneration of the DZNE (German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases) and is Consultant Senior Neurologist at the Dept. of Neurology in the Klinikum rechts der Isar of the Technical University Munich, Germany. His present research focuses on the identification of environmental and genetic causes of neurodegenerative akinetic-rigid and dementing syndromes including progressive supranuclear palsy, the improvement of diagnostic tools and the development of therapeutic interventions. Günter Höglinger pioneered prior clinical therapeutic developments in PSP patients (Stamelou, M, et al., Mov Disord. 2008,23: 942-9; Höglinger, GU, et al., Mov. Disord. 2014;29: 479-87) and led the study that first identified genetic risk factors for PSP (Höglinger, GU, et al., Nature Genetics, 2011;43: 699-705). He studied Medicine and Physics at the Universities of Regensburg and Würzburg, Germany. He was Deputy Director of the Dept. of Neurology under Prof. Dr. Dr. W. H. Oertel at the Philipps University Marburg. He is member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the curePSP foundation and co-chair the SAB of the German PSP society.