Prof. Dr. Eicke Latz
Wissenschaftlicher Direktor, Deutsches Rheuma-Forschungszentrum Berlin
Prof. Dr. (med.) Eicke Latz studied medicine at the Georg-August University and the Freie Universität Berlin, following which, he worked as an intensive care physician at the Charité Universitätsmedizin. In 2001, he moved to the USA, working as a postdoctoral researcher at Boston University, then at UMass Chan Medical School, where he held his first professorship. In 2010, he returned to Germany and founded the Institute for Innate Immunity at the University Hospital Bonn. He became Scientific Director of the DRFZ and Professor of Experimental Rheumatology at the Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin in 2023. His research interests concern how the innate immune system maintains health and under what circumstances it can promote disease. In particular, he investigates the molecular mechanisms that lead to activation or inhibition of the immune system and how these influence the inflammatory reactions in various diseases, such as rheumatic diseases, arteriosclerosis or Alzheimer’s disease.
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