Ralf Linker

Ralf Linker studied human medicine in Freiburg/Breisgau, Berlin and St. Louis, Missouri. After a molecular-biological doctoral thesis at the Institute of Biochemistry, University of Freiburg, he worked as resident physician at the University of Wurzburg, Department of Neurology (Prof Toyka) as well as in Gottingen (Prof Bahr) and at the Ruhr-University of Bochum, Department of Psychiatry (Prof Juckel). From 2007 to 2010 he worked as senior physician at the St. Josef Hospital, Ruhr University in Bochum (Director: Prof Gold), where he was head of the neurological research laboratory.
Since September 2010, he is head of the Neuroimmunology Section and Attending Physican at the Department of Neurology, University Hospital Erlangen. His interests focus on multiple sclerosis and neurodegenerative diseases, particularly in the field of experimental models. The emphasis is on examining mechanisms of neurodegeneration and neuroprotection as well as research on mechanisms of action of established immune therapies and novel ways of treatment in the translational approach. In 2002, Ralf Linker was awarded the Sobek-Stiftung young researchers' prize as well as in 2005, the Helmut-Bauer young researchers' prize for MS research.