Professor Markus Neurath
University Hospital Erlangen, Germany
Markus Neurath studied medicine at the university of Marburg. After his thesis he worked as a resident at the University of Mainz. Afterwards he joined the lab of Prof. Warren Strober at NIH/NIAID in Bethesda as a post‐doctoral fellow.
Subsequently he returned to Mainz and finished his habilitation in 1998. After a stay as guest professor at Harvard Medical School in Boston, he was appointed to a W2 professorship at the Medical Clinic I in Mainz. In 2007 he accepted a call as W3 professor in Mainz and took over the position as head of department of the Institute of Molecular Medicine in Mainz.
Since 2009 he holds the chair for Internal Medicine I at the university of Erlangen‐Nürnberg. Since then, he is also head of the Department of Medicine 1 at the University Hospital Erlangen. His major scientific interest focuses in the field of immunology and endoscopy of the gut. His research deals with the immunologic and molecular mechanisms in the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel diseases and GI cancer.
