Biography & Research:
Dr. Susanne Aileen Funke is vice president for research and professor for molecular biology at the Coburg University of Applied Sciences and Arts. Her main research interests are therapy and early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative diseases as well as protein protein interactions.
Before, she was group leader of the Alzheimer’s research team of the Institute of Structural Biology and Biophysics of the Research Centre Jülich.
She majored in Biology in Bochum, Germany. She received a PhD in Biology at the University of Düsseldorf, Germany, after performing studies in Groningen, the Netherlands, and Marseille, France. She performed postdoctoral studies at the Institute for Physical Biology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany.