Kurt Jellinger, MD PhD
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Affiliation(s):
Institute of Clinical Neurobiology
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Areas of Interest:
aging, Alzheimer's disease, cell cycle control, cytoskeletal organization, neurodegeneration, oxidative stress, Parkinson-dementia, Parkinson's disease
Biography & Research:
Born in Vienna on May 28, 1931, MD study Univ. of Vienna School of Medicine; specialist in neurology, neuropathology and psychiatry; Ass. Prof. Institute of Neurology Vienna (1966), Full Professor of neuropathology Med. Univ. Vienna (1973), director Dept. of Neurology, Lainz-Hospital, Vienna (1976-30 September 1997); Director, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Clinical Neurobiology, Vienna (1977-2002); Guest Professor Univ.of Graz & Innsbruck School of Medicine (1998-2000); since May 2002 Chief, Institute of Clinical Neurobiology, Vienna, Austria.
Member of many national and international societies, honorary member of German and Austrian Societies of Neurology, Neuropathology, Alzheimer and Parkinson disease societies, French and Hungarian societies of Neurology, Intl. Soc. of Neuropathology. Honorary foreign member of the Romanian Academy of Medical Sciences. Several national and international awards (for Med. Science, City of Vienna, Alzheimer-Obelisk, Senator Burda and Lundbeck awards for Parkinson research, A.M.Jakob medal of German Soc. of Neuropathology, Meritorial Service award Amer. Ass. Neuropathol., G. Cotzias Award of the Spanish Soc. of Neurology.
Executive editor Acta Neuropathologica (1978-2005), member of editorial boards of many international journals. 562 papers in international refereed journals and 326 reviews and chapters in handbooks, editor and co-editor of 10 books. Reviewer for many international scientific journals.
Expertise / research interests:
Neuropathology, brain aging, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, non-Alzheimer dementias, movement disorders, CNS aging, neurodegenerative disorders and vascular dementia, multiple system atrophy.
September 2015
