Lutz Frolich MD, PhD

Lutz Froelich is Professor of Geriatric Psychiatry at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and Head of the Department of Geriatric Psychiatry at the Central Institute for Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany. After graduating from Medical School, University of Heidelberg, he worked at the Department of Psychoanalytic Basic Studies and Family Therapy, University of Heidelberg, and was a Research Fellow on animal models of Alzheimer’s disease with Professor Siegfried Hoyer at the University of Heidelberg. He received clinical training in psychiatry and psychotherapy at the Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology and did laboratory work on post-mortem brain research in dementias with Prof. Peter Riederer, Neurochemistry Lab, University of Wurzburg, Germany.

As attending physician at the Dept of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Frankfurt, Germany, he received his habilitation in psychiatry (eq. to Ph.D.) in 1996 with experimental work on Insulin and insulin receptors in the brain in Alzheimer’s disease. His current major research interest is on clinical dementia research, biomarkers, and the development and evaluation of innovative therapies in Alzheimer’s disease. He is a member of the executive committee of the European Alzheimer’s disease consortium and is Chief Organizing Officer and Co-leader of the therapeutic trials program of the German Competence Network on Dementias.