Alexander Drzezga MD

Alexander Drzezga studied human medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University and the Technical University of Munich, obtained a license for medical practice, and took up residency at the Department of Nuclear Medicine of the Technical University of Munich.

In 2002 Drzezga specialized in nuclear medicine and was a Consultant at the Department before becoming an Assistant Professor at the Technical University. Since 2012 he has been Professor and Chair of the Department of Nuclear Medicine at the University Hospital Cologne, and he is currently chair of the Department of Nuclear Medicine at the University Hospital Cologne and affiliated with the German Center for Neurodegenerative Disorders (DZNE) and the Institute for Neuroscience and Medicine (INM) at the Research Center Juelich. In 2018 he became Director at the INM.

Drzezga’s research focus is on the application of multimodal and molecular imaging procedures to investigate neurodegenerative disorders and their interrelation with the network architecture of the brain. He is a member of the AMYPAD project and is a Principal Investigator at the AMYPAD site in Cologne, Germany.