Prof. Dr. Med. A. C. Ludolph
Biographical brief
Name: Albert Christian Ludolph
Nationality: German
Place and date of birth: Bad Pyrmont, 12 December 1953
Tel: 49-731-1771200, Fax: 49-731-1771202
Email: albert.ludolph@rku.de
Professional life:
1973-1978
Student of medicine in Mainz and Göttingen
1979-1984
Neurology and psychiatry specialist education (Münster University)
1984-1985
DFG scholarship, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, (Institute of Neurotoxicology; Prof. P. S. Spencer, Prof. H.H. Schaumburg)
1987
Habilitation and senior physician, Neurological Clinic of Münster University
1990-1992
Visiting Associate Professor, Staff Scientist, Center for Research on Occuputational and Environmental Toxciology (Prof. P.S. Spencer), Department of Neurology (Prof. E. Zimmermann), Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland (Oregon), USA
1992
Senior physician at the epileptological clinic of Bonn Univesity (Prof. Dr. C. E. Elger)
1992
Call to professor's chair (C3), Director & senior physician, Charité
1993-1996
Director & senior physician of the Neurological Clinic of Humboldt University, Berlin (Prof. Dr. K.-M. Einhäuptl)
Since 1996
Call to professor's chair (C4), Director of neurological department of Ulm University, Medical director of the neurological department of RKU - University and Rehabilitation Clinics Ulm
Since 2003
Elected director of Ulm Neurocentre
Clinical and scientific focus:
Neurodegenerative diseases - symptomatic and causal therapy
- Alzheimer's disease
- Motor system degenerations
- Parkinson's disease and other degenerative diseases of the extrapyramidal system
- Chorea Huntington (teaming with G.B. Landwehrmeyer, A. Storch)
- Development of neuroprotective strategise (experimental and on humans), establishment of biological markers (long-term development, preclinical stage)
Neurotoxicology
- Clinical neurotoxicology
- Cell death mechanisms following intoxications of the nervous system
- Cell death mechanisms following metabolic disorders of the nervous system
- Cell death mechanisms of "degenerative" diseases of the nervous system
Analysis of in vivo and in vitro models based on notions developed from human model diseases