Dr. Manuela Neumann

Biography

Manuela Neumann studied medicine at the University of Munich (LMU) and University of Goettingen. For her doctoral thesis, she performed studies on the prion protein gene and its role in familial and transmissible prion diseases (supervisor Prof. Dr. Kretzschmar). She received her training as a specialist in neuropathology at the Institute of Neuropathology, University Göttingen and Munich. During this time she was also the scientific coordinator for the German brain bank network "Brain-Net". From 2005-2006 she was a visiting scientist at the laboratory of Drs John Trojanowski and Virginia Lee at the Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. After her return to the Institute of Neuropathology she worked as independent group leader and habilitated in the same year at the LMU on the molecular neuropathology of α-synucleinopathies and tauopathies. In 2008 she was appointed Assistant Professor of Experimental Neuropathology at the University of Zurich. In June 2012 she accepted an appointment as chair of neuropathology at the University of Tübingen and the Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research.

Research Interest

Prof. Neumann’s main research area is the molecular pathology of neurodegenerative diseases with focus on frontotemporal dementia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. She was honored for her work with several awards, including the prestigious research award from the Hans & Ilse Breuer Foundation in 2012.