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Haass Lab
Research in my lab is devoted to the discovery of cellular and molecular mechanisms of dementia. We are specifically interested in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease and Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration.
We are using interdisciplinary approaches ranging from biophysics, biochemistry and cellular and molecular biology to in vivo models and life imaging. The laboratory is divided into several research areas including: Protein shedding by α- and β-secretases, Intramembrane proteolysis by γ-secretase, Intramembrane proteolysis by signal peptide peptidases and their relatives, Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration, Parkinson's disease and Zebrafish models.
Our work is embedded in the Excellence Cluster "Center of Integrated Protein Science" and the Collaborative Research Center "SFB 596 Molecular Mechanisms of Neurodegeneration", both funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). The division of biochemistry is a partner institute of the German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE).
Responsible for content: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Christian Haass