Our Group

Group Leader

Prof. Jan Lünemann, MD, MBA

Jan D. Lünemann is Full Professor of Neurology at the University of Münster, Germany. Dr. Lünemann received his medical degree at Humboldt University and his residency training in the Department of Neurology at the Charité University Hospital, both in Berlin, Germany. He received his doctoral training at the Department of Rheumatology and the German Rheumatism Research Center in Berlin, and his postdoctoral training at the National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, MD) and at the Rockefeller University in New York. Before his tenure in Münster, he was Assistant Professor and Head of the Department of Neuroinflammation at the Institute of Experimental Immunology, University of Zurich, and Consultant at the Departments of Neurology, University Hospitals of Basel and Zürich, Switzerland. Dr. Lünemann received the Human Immunology Award from the Irvington Institute for Immunological Research and the Dana Foundation, New York, and the Siegenthaler Scientific Award for Medical Sciences from the University of Zürich. He is Associate Editor of Autophagy.