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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CNS macrophage populations differentially rely on an intronic Csf1r enhancer for their development
In:
Development
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.194449
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
RNA Sequencing of Human Peripheral Blood Cells Indicates Upregulation of Immune-Related Genes in Huntington's Disease
In:
Frontiers in Neurology, vol. 11
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2020.573560
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Generation of pure monocultures of human microglia-like cells from induced pluripotent stem cells
In:
Stem Cell Research, vol. 49, pp. 102046
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scr.2020.102046
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Investigating Microglia in Health and Disease: Challenges and Opportunities
In:
Trends in Immunology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.it.2020.07.002
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Review article (Published) -
Lentiviral delivery of human erythropoietin attenuates hippocampal atrophy and improves cognition in the R6/2 mouse model of Huntington's disease
In:
Neurobiology of disease
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nbd.2020.105024
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)