Biography & Research:
Kristina Endres is head of the biochemical laboratory at the Clinic of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy of the University Medical Center, Mainz, Germany. She obtained her doctoral degree at the Institute of Biochemistry (JGU Mainz, Germany) in 2005 and subsequently built up her own working group, which moved to the medical department in 2009. Her research is focused on alpha-secretase-based therapeutic strategies and the role of sheddases in the healthy, the aging, and the diseased brain.