Dr. Werner R. Paulus
Doctor
Neuropathology
University of Munster
Germany
Biography
Education: 1966 – 1978 Elementary School and High School 1978 – 1985 Medical School, University of Erlangen, Germany Scientific Degrees: 1985 MD, University of Erlangen (Neurophysiology) 1994 Habilitation (PhD), Univ. of Würzburg, Germany Professional Appointments: 1986 – 1989 Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Brain Research, University of Tübingen, Germany (with Jürgen Peiffer) 1989 – 1990 Research Associate, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Clinical Neurobiology, Vienna, Austria (with Kurt Jellinger) 1990 – 1994 Assistant Professor, Institute of Pathology, University of Würzburg, Germany (with Hans-Konrad Müller-Hermelink) 1994 – 1995 Research Fellow, Molecular Neurogenetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA (with Xandra O. Breakefield) 1995 – 1996 Senior Registrar, Institute of Neuropathology, University Hospital, Zürich, Switzerland (with Paul Kleihues) 1996 – 1998 Associate Professor (Neuropathology) and Head, Department of Neuropathology, Univ. of Erlangen, Germany 1998 – present Professor (Neuropathology) and Director, Institute of Neuropathology, University of Münster, Germany
Research Interest
Clinical and molecular neuropathology
Publications
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Home S, Sill M, Jones DT, Vasiljevic A, Paulus W, et al. (2016) Papillary Tumor of the Pineal Region: A Distinct Molecular Entity. Brain Pathol 26: 199-205.
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Rivera B, Gayden T, Carrot Zhang J, Nadaf J, Paulus W, et al. (2016) Germline and somatic FGFR1 abnormalities in dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumors. Acta Neuropathol (Berl) 131: 847-863.
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Uchihara T, Giasson BI, Paulus W (2016) Propagation of A ?, tau and? -synuclein pathology between experimental models and human reality: prions, propagons and propaganda. Acta Neuropathol (Berl) 131: 1-3.
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Lehman NL, Hattab EM, Mobley BC, Usubalieva A, Paulus W, et al. (2017) Morphological and molecular features of astroblastoma, including BRAFV600E mutations, suggest an ontological relationship to other cortical-based gliomas of children and young adults. Neuro-oncol 19: 31-42.
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Paulus W (2017) Experimental models of neurological disease: neuropathology. What is virtual reality, science or fiction. Acta Neuropathol (Berl) 133: 153-154.
