George Trendelenburg
Universitätsmedizin Göttingen, Germany
Biography
George Trendelenburg after studying human medicine at the University of the Saarland, continued his studies at the Free University in Berlin, where he graduated 1994 and finished his Doctoral thesis at the Free University in Berlin with summa cum laude. In 1996 he joined the Institute for Experimental Stroke research at the Charité University hospital in Berlin (director: Prof. Ulrich Dirnagl) and completed his neurological specification in 2004. His research interest was mainly focused on stroke-related genomics and lead to the identification of several genes which were involved in stroke-pathophysiology. Besides working as a group leader of a stroke-research group at the Charité, Berlin, he was working as consultant Neurologist at the emergency department and at the interdisciplinary neurosurgical-neurological intensive care unit of the neurological department of the Charité, Berlin between 2010-6/2011. Since 2011 he is Professor and Leader of the department of stroke research of the University of Göttingen, Germany and also works as consultant neurologist. He is interested in dissecting the role of the innate immune system in ischemic brain injury with a focus on the complement system and the innate danger receptors. He published more than 30 papers in reputed journals, was awarded by the DAAD and by Maria-Sonnenfeld foundation, and is the Editorial Board Member of Frontiers of Neurology and BMC Genomics.
Abstract
Abstract : Initiation of innate immune response in ischemic brain injury and identification of related pathways