Klaus Toyka

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Klaus Viktor Toyka (born April 15, 1945 in Biberach an der Riss ) is a German neurologist and university professor .

Life

Toyka studied medicine in Munich , where he passed the state examination in 1970 and received his doctorate on hormonal diagnosis of children's endocrinopathies .

At the von Hauner'sche Children's Clinic of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , he then worked until 1974 as a research assistant and scholarship holder of the German Research Foundation (DFG) for pediatric neurology . In 1974 he moved to the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore ( USA ) with funding from the DFG and the Muscular Dystrophy Association and Research Fellow . There he worked in a mouse model on the autoimmune pathogenesis of myasthenia gravis and received further training in neuroimmunology and neuromuscular diseases.

After returning to Germany, he completed his training as a neurologist at the Technical University of Munich and completed his habilitation in 1978 on his myastenia experiments.

In the following year he was appointed professor at the University of Düsseldorf , where he built up a focus on neuroimmunology and neuromuscular diseases.

In 1989 he switched to the chair of neurology at the University of Würzburg . Connected with his attitude was the reorganization of the former clinical research group for multiple sclerosis of the Max Planck Society and later the clinical research group for neuroregeneration of the DFG. A chair has been established here since 2000 with the support of the Schilling Foundation .

The focus of his research lies in the investigation of disease models of neuroimmunological and degenerative diseases in mice and rats, in connection with questions of humoral and cell-mediated immunopathogenesis and the development of new, mostly molecular therapy strategies. These research results are the basis for therapeutic research on humans. His most important findings include the pathogenic importance of autoantibodies in myasthenia, several forms of polyneuritis , multiple sclerosis, paraneoplastic diseases and their therapy, as well as the mechanisms of lesion development in these diseases.

Toyka is co-founder of the neuroscientific DFG Collaborative Research Center 200 and chairman of the medical advisory board of the German Multiple Sclerosis Society Bundesverband e. V.

For his services to medical research, he was accepted into the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina on September 28, 2005 . In the same year he was awarded the AMSEL Support Group Ursula Späth Prize for his commitment to people with MS . In July 2010 he was awarded the Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Toyka also holds a number of honorary positions. His part-time engagement is particularly in classical music. He was chairman of the Musikalische Akademie Würzburg e. V. and together with his wife organized and financed over 250 chamber concerts in Würzburg between 1990 and 2010 to promote the next generation of young musicians . He also provides instruments he owns to promote young talent. He himself was trained on the violin with P. Klöcker in Dortmund and gives chamber concerts, mainly in his home region.

Toyka is married to Regine Toyka-Blum.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Member entry by Klaus Toyka (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 19, 2016.
  2. AMSEL-Förderkreis Ursula Späth-Preis ( Memento of December 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  3. Award of the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon. Laudation for Professor Dr. Klaus Toyka . Bavarian State Ministry for the Environment and Consumer Protection , accessed on January 12, 2015.
  4. Page no longer available , search in web archives: Musical career on klinik.uni-wuerzburg.de@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.klinik.uni-wuerzburg.de