Professor Josef Priller

Chair of Brain Inflammation and Repair

Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences
UK Dementia Research Institute at the University of Edinburgh

Email: Josef.Priller@ed.ac.uk

Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences

Biography

Background

Josef Priller is the Professor of Neuropsychiatry at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Chair of Brain Inflammation and Repair at the University of Edinburgh and UK DRI.

He graduated from the Technical University of Munich, and obtained his M.D. at the Max-Planck-Institute of Psychiatry. He performed his residencies in neurology, psychiatry and psychotherapy at the Charité in Berlin.

Qualifications

01/1998 Dr. med. (Max-Planck-Institute of Psychiatry and Technical University of Munich, Germany)

07/2002 Habilitation (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany)

03/2004 University Professor (Charite University Berlin, Germany)

12/2004 Board Certification in Neurology (Aerztekammer Berlin, Germany)

11/2009 Board Certification in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (Aerztekammer Berlin, Germany)

Research

Research summary

He combines basic research in neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration with clinical work on movement disorders and dementias. He is particularly interested in Huntington’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementias.