Chief Executive Officer, Dean of the Medical Faculty
Department Research & Teaching
Prof. Wolfgang Brück, MD
Prof. Wolfgang Brück, MD has been Chief Executive Officer, Head of Research and Teaching and Dean of the Medical Faculty since August 1, 2019. Wolfgang Brück studied human medicine at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz from 1980 to 1986, where he obtained his doctorate in 1990. In 1994, Wolfgang Brück completed his specialist training in neuropathology at the UMG and habilitated in neuropathology in 1996.
After a research stay at the Neurological Institute of the University of Vienna, he was employed at the Institute of Neuropathology at the Charité in Berlin from 1998 to 2002, initially as acting head and from 2000 as C3 Professor of Neuropathology. In 2002, Wolfgang Brück was appointed C4 Professor of Neuropathology at the Georg-August University of Göttingen and has been Director of the Department of Neuropathology at the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) since August 1, 2002.
Prof. Brück is an internationally recognized expert in the field of multiple sclerosis and has collaborations with numerous leading international research centers.
Prof. Brück has held several leading positions at the Medical Faculty of the University of Göttingen and the Executive Board of the UMG. In 2004 and 2010, for example, he was interim Chief Medical Officer and in 2005 he was interim Chief Executive Officer. From October 2005 to March 2009, Brück held the position of Dean of Research. From April 2011 to July 2019, Prof. Wolfgang Brück was Dean of Infrastructure and Development and Deputy Director of Research and Teaching.
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Brück was awarded the Hans Heinrich Georg Queckenstedt Prize for Multiple Sclerosis Research in 2002 and the Hans Georg Mertens Prize for Innovative Research in Neurology in 2008, and received the Kohn Award from the British Society of Toxicological Pathologists in 2011. From 2008 to 2016, Brück was deputy spokesperson for the SFB Transregio TTR43: “The brain as a target of inflammatory processes”.
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