Tobias M. Böckers is the head of the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (German: Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen, (DZNE)) Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology at the University of Ulm.[1] The focus of his work is translational protein biochemistry as it applies to neurodegenerative diseases such as ALS.[2]
He was born in Rheda-Wiedenbrück on 2 August 1964. In 1991, he was awarded an M.D. by the University of Münster, where he also completed postdoctoral work in anatomy and molecular neurobiology in 1998.[3]
He was President of the Anatomische Gesellschaft from 2010 to 2014. In 2019, he became a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
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