Georg Kreutzberg
Georg W. Kreutzberg ( born September 2, 1932 in Ahrweiler ) is a German neuropathologist and neuroscientist. Kreutzberg was for many years director of the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry and the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology.
Life
Georg Kreutzberg studied medicine at the Rheinische Friedrich- Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Albert -Ludwigs- University of Freiburg, Medical University of Innsbruck and Vienna University. In Bonn, he became a member of the Catholic Student Association KDSt.V. Ripuaria Bonn in CV, and later the K.D.St.V. Ripuaria Freiburg im Breisgau. In 1961 he received his doctorate in Freiburg as a doctor of medicine. After working as a medical assistant at various university hospitals, he was a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry in Munich. He was 1964-65 postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge (Massachusetts ) and 1968 Guest Scientist at Rockefeller University in New York City. In 1971 he habilitated in neuropathology at the University of Munich.
1977 Kreutzberg was appointed adjunct professor of neuropathology at the Medical Faculty of the Technical University of Munich. In 1978 he was appointed scientific member and director at the Theoretical Department of the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry in Munich (from 1984 on Martinsried ), which in 1998 became the independent Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology. In 1993, he worked as a Visiting Professor at the Brain Research Institute at the University of Zurich. 2000 Kreutzberg was given emeritus status, but continues to work with lectures, holds honorary positions and as a consultant.
He is a member of numerous national and international research institutions. Between 1981 and 1985 he was the president of the German Society for Cell Biology ( DGZ ) in front from 1994 to 1997, the International Society of Neuropathology and from 1997 to 2000, German Neurowissenchaftlichen society. He was a founding member in 1991 and 1994 to 2008 Chairman of the Research Council of the International Foundation for Research in Paraplegia (IFP ), Zurich. 1991-1998 Georg Kreutzberg was the initiator, co-founder and director of the European European Initiative for Communicators of Science ( EICOS ). Since 1991 he is member of the Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea. From 2007 to 2008 he was president of the International Society for the History of the Neurosciences.
Kreutzberg was invested on 26 October 1991 in Speyer in the Equestrian Order of the Holy grave in Jerusalem.
Work
As experimental neuropathologist he conducts research on the cellular mechanisms of brain and nerve diseases in particular on the regeneration and repair mechanisms in the brain and the role of glial cells in brain diseases. He is considered a leader in the study of microglial cells, the crucial defense cell of the brain tissue. He discovered the blocking effect of colchicine on the axonal and dendritic transport in neurons. On the model of the Fazialiskerns after axotomy he and his colleagues found significant parameters of the regeneration program of the nerve cells. He also developed the concept of microglia activation, which showed new ways of understanding of many brain diseases.