Wolfgang Streit, PhD
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Affiliation(s):
University of Florida
Areas of Interest:
Alzheimer's disease; Neurodegeneration; Microglia
Biography & Research:
Positions and Employment
1985 to 1986: Post-doctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology, Martinsried, Germany.
1986 to 1989: Staff Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology, Martinsried, Germany.
1989 to 1994: Assistant Professor, University of Florida, Department of Neuroscience, Gainesville, FL.
1994 to 1999: Associate Professor (with tenure), University of Florida, Department of Neuroscience,
Gainesville, FL.
1999 to present: Professor, University of Florida, Department of Neuroscience, Gainesville, FL.
My ambition as a scientist is to understand the functions of microglial cells in the normal and diseased CNS and to apply this knowledge towards finding cures and treatments for neurological diseases. I have been studying microglia since 1984 and have one of the most enduring records of accomplishment in the microglia field among active neuroscientists. As a research neuropathologist and neuroimmunologist, I have broad experience having investigated neuronal-microglial interactions in a variety of experimental and human settings, including motoneuron regeneration and degeneration, spinal cord injury, brain cancer, stroke, neurodegenerative diseases and the aging human brain. Specifically with regard to Alzheimer’s Disease, (AD) I have been investigating the role of microglial cells in AD pathogenesis using brains from both preclinical and clinical AD human brains. Our findings on this topic are being published regularly.
