Professor Josef Priller
Chair of Brain Inflammation and Repair
- Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences
- UK Dementia Research Institute at the University of Edinburgh
Contact details
- Email: Josef.Priller@ed.ac.uk
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 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.
Related links
Neurodegenerative conditions research at the Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences
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Targeting Huntingtin Expression in Patients with Huntington’s Disease
In:
The New England Journal of Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa1900907
Contribution to journal › Article (Published) -
The BDNFVal66Met SNP modulates the association between beta-amyloid and hippocampal disconnection in Alzheimer’s disease
In:
Molecular Psychiatry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-019-0404-6
Contribution to journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Spatial and temporal heterogeneity of mouse and human microglia at single-cell resolution
In:
Nature
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-0924-x
Contribution to journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Prevalence of abnormal Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers in patients with subjective cognitive decline: cross-sectional comparison of three European memory clinic samples
In:
Alzheimer's research & therapy, vol. 11, no. 1
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13195-018-0463-y
Contribution to journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Identification of genetic variants associated with Huntington's disease progression : a genome-wide association study
(11 pages)
In:
Lancet Neurology, vol. 16, no. 9, pp. 701-711
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S1474-4422(17)30161-8
Contribution to journal › Article (Published)