Prof. Christoph Kleinschnitz

Christoph Kleinschnitz studied medicine at the University of Würzburg. After defending his thesis, he practiced for several years at the Neurological University Hospital of Würzburg, having obtained the specialty of a neurologist in 2007. In 2009, he headed the intensive care unit for patients with stroke and outpatient clinics, which treat apoplexy attacks and diseases of the blood vessels of the brain. Moreover, since 2010, he was in charge of the Clinical Laboratory of Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology. To this day he is the leading specialist of the neurological department at the University Clinic Essen. The scientific activity of the doctor is aimed at molecular visualization (magnetic resonance imaging) and inflammation of the central nervous system. In 2006 he received the International Scholarship Prize of the American Academy of Neurology. He received the “Young Scientist” prize in a network competence, Berlin. In 2007 he was awarded the Herman-Rein Prize of the Society for Microcirculation and Vascular Biology, Berlin. In 2008 he received the Theodor-Negeli prize from Theodor-Negeli Foundation, Basel, as well as the Habilitation Prize of the Wilhelm H. Ruhti Foundation, Würzburg. The newspaper DIE ZEIT awarded him the title “Young Scientist of the Year”.

Membership in international communities:

• European Neurological Society
• Association of German University
• Society of microcirculation and vascular biology

Specialty of the doctor: neurology