Britta Engelhardt

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Britta Engelhardt (born December 28, 1962 in Stuttgart ) is a German biologist, professor of immunobiology and director of the Theodor Kocher Institute at the University of Bern . Her research focus is the biology of the blood-brain barrier , in particular the inflammation of nerve tissue ( neuroinflammation ) that occurs there, among other things in the context of multiple sclerosis .

Career

Britta Engelhardt completed her studies in human biology with a focus on immunology from 1982 at the medical faculty of the University of Marburg . Due to her research interest in multiple sclerosis, she then moved to a clinical research group in Würzburg, from where she went to the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry in Munich with her doctoral supervisor Hartmut Wekerle . There she received her doctorate in 1991 as Dr. rer. physiol.

During a postdoctoral stay in the laboratory of Eugene C. Butcher at Stanford University from 1991 to 1993 , she researched cell adhesion molecules that are involved in the recruitment of white blood cells via the blood-brain barrier . She then returned to Germany, where, after a short interlude at the University of Tübingen , she headed various research groups at the Max Planck Institute for Physiological and Clinical Research in Bad Nauheim from the end of 1993 to 2001 . She received her license to teach immunology and cell biology in 1998 at the medical faculty of the University of Marburg, and in 1999 she was appointed to a C3 position at her institute.

In 2003 she was appointed professor of immunobiology at the University of Bern, where she heads the Theodor Kocher Institute.

Britta Engelhardt is President of the Microscopy Imaging Center at the University of Bern; she is considered a pioneer in the use of intravital microscopy to study the microcirculation of the spinal cord in living mice. In 2001 she was awarded the Hermann Rein Prize by the Society for Microcirculation and Vascular Biology for her work in this area . She is a member of various specialist societies; Among other things, she is President of the Swiss Society for Microcirculation and Vascular Research and of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Swiss Multiple Sclerosis Society .

In addition, Engelhardt is the President of the Commission for the Equal Opportunities of the Medical Faculty and coordinates the BtRAIN program for the promotion of young academics included in the EU project Horizon 2020 .

She is married and lives in Bern.

Web links

Career

  1. ↑ a b c d e curriculum vitae. In: med.uni-magdeburg.de. Retrieved March 28, 2020 (English).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Fluids and Barriers of the CNS. Retrieved March 28, 2020 (English).
  3. ↑ a b c d Against convenience. February 14, 2017, accessed March 28, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Immune-specific interaction of rat brain capillary endothelial cells with syngeneic antigen-specific T cell lines . (Dissertation). 1990.
  5. ↑ Birgit Kolboske: The beginnings. Equal opportunity in the Max Planck Society, 1988–1998. A departure with obstacles . (Preprint 2). Ed .: Florian Schmaltz, Jürgen Renn, Carsten Reinhardt and Jürgen Kocka. S. 105 ( mpg.de [PDF] footnote 442).
  6. ^ Committee. Retrieved March 28, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Scientific Advisory Board. In: multiplesklerose.ch. Swiss Multiple Sclerosis Society, accessed on March 29, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Engelhardt, Britta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biologist and immunologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart