Ingo Bechmann

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Ingo Jürgen Bechmann (born October 28, 1968 in Coburg ) is a German neuroanatomist , neuroimmunologist and university professor .

Life

Bechmann attended the Casimirianum high school in Coburg, where he graduated from high school in 1989. He then worked as an assistant for direction and dramaturgy at the Stadttheater Würzburg until October . After doing community service until December 1990 on an internal geriatric ward at the rural hospital in Coburg and working as a nursing assistant in the surgical department of the St. Katharinen Hospital in Frankfurt am Main (January to March 1991), Bechmann first began Protestant theology and philosophy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University to study. In October 1991 he changed his field of study and began studying human medicine. In September 1993 he did his physics . He then worked at the Dr. Senckenberg Institute for Anatomy with Thomas G. Ohm. From 1991 to August 1994 he also worked as a nursing assistant in the center for psychiatry at the university clinic and in the cardiology department of the Red Cross Hospital. He passed the 1st state examination in August 1994. He switched to Robert Nitsch at the Institute for Anatomy at the Charité in Berlin. The 2nd state examination followed in March 1997 and, after a year of practical experience, the 3rd state examination and a partial license as a doctor in April 1998.

He then received a scholarship as a doctor in an internship at the Charité and works in the Clinic for Neurology (Prof. K. Einhäupl) and at the Institute for Anatomy (Prof. R. Nitsch). In April 1999, he received his doctorate to become a Doctor medicinae with the grade summa cum laude at the Humboldt University in Berlin with a thesis on the topic of "Identification of phagocytic glial cells ". Among other things, he received the Humboldt Prize from the Humboldt University for his dissertation .

In October 1999, Bechmann received a full license to practice as a doctor. After completing his habilitation in 2001 on the subject of “ Immune privilege in the brain” at the Charité, he turned down calls to Greifswald (2003) and Aachen (2004) and accepted calls for a junior professorship (2002) and a C3 professorship (2004) at the Charité. In 2006 he followed a call to the Goethe University Frankfurt / Main, where he worked at the Institute for Clinical Neuroanatomy until 2009. He then received professorships in Göttingen , Erlangen and Leipzig.

Bechmann has been director at the Institute for Anatomy at the University of Leipzig since October 2009 .

research

Bechmann is researching the mechanisms of immunological tolerance in the brain in diseases such as multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer's disease . He discovered the conditions under which immune cells are “called” into the brain and how they are deactivated by local immunosuppressive mechanisms. In order to be able to observe tissue reactions directly, he developed sectional culture models of human tissues that depict the mechanisms involved in the treatment of cancer cells better than animal experiments.

Since the beginning of 2013, Bechmann has been involved in the international research project ICEMED, which, in collaboration with four Helmholtz centers and 14 universities and institutes from Germany, Great Britain and the USA, deals with the visualization and therapy of environmental and obesity-related metabolic diseases .

Ingo Bechmann has been Vice Dean of the Medical Faculty of the University of Leipzig since 2013, since 2016 he has been an elected member of the German Research Foundation (DFG) "Fundamentals of Biology and Medicine", and since 2020 he has been an elected member of the "Medicine" committee.

Scholarships and Awards

  • Scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation
  • 1996 Humboldt fellowship
  • Robert Koch Prize of the Charité Medical Faculty: Best dissertation of the Faculty in 1999
  • Humboldt Prize, University Prize of the Humboldt University of Berlin: Best dissertation at the university in 1999
  • Ernst Bumm Prize from the Vice Dean for Teaching at the Charité: For outstanding achievements in teaching in 2000
  • Wolfgang Bargmann Prize of the Anatomical Society: Best scientific publication 2001 (Bechmann et al., FASEB J.) 2002
  • Teaching Award of the Medical Neuroscience course at the Charité 2005
  • Teaching award from the Medical Faculty of the University of Leipzig in 2017 and 2019

Fonts (selection)

  • Identification of phagocytic glial cells during anterograde degeneration in the dentate gyrus after entorhinal lesion. Correlation of functional with morphological changes; a light, confocal and electron microscopic study. (= Dissertation, Humboldt University Berlin) 1999, OCLC 64647628 .
  • Mechanisms of immune privilege in the central nervous system after axonal lesion. (= Habilitation thesis, Humboldt University Berlin) 2001, OCLC 76305787 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Curriculum vitae on edoc.hu-berlin.de, accessed on September 4, 2013.
  2. ↑ Honors in the HU archive at hu-berlin.de, accessed on September 4, 2013.
  3. ↑ Press release on the study on living human tumor sections on zv.uni-leipzig.de
  4. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: press release from the University of Leipzig on the ICEMED project on zv.uni-leipzig.de )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.zv.uni-leipzig.de
  5. ↑ a b c d e Vita on the website of the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
personal data
SURNAME Bechmann, Ingo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bechmann, Ingo Jürgen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German neuroanatomist, neuroimmunologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Coburg