Frauke Zipp

Frauke Zipp, Professor of Neurology and Neuroimmunology, Rhine-Main-Neuroscience Network, Director of the Department of Neurology at the University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany, is a Clinician Scientist. As such she performs research on effector mechanisms including their biomarker and concepts of repair in inflammatory pathology of the brain such as in multiple sclerosis, with a focus on the delicate balance of the immune and nervous system in health and disease. Apart from participating on several advisory or executive boards (such as MSIF, ECTRIMS, ISNI, KKNMS) and reviewing for international journals, research agencies as well as research and clinical societies, she has published in journals such as Lancet, Cell, Nature Medicine, Nature Neuroscience, Immunity and Nature Cell Biology. Frauke Zipp has served and is active as Associate Editor and Advisor for renowned journals, in trial steering committees and safety boards, and has organized international meetings as well as is member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the European Academia Europaea.

She is the founding speaker of two trans-regional collaborative research centers and, together with four colleagues, founding member of a German Research Foundation (DFG) excellence cluster (NeuroCure, Charité Berlin). Translational work has always been her motivation and allows for successful research as well as patients´ treatment. This guiding principal does not only influence her own work given in selected papers below, but also the work of all professors recruited to the Neurology Department over the past few years. Her understanding of a University Medical Hospital combining research, teaching and clinical care is best characterized as an Academic Health Center.