Team member CV

Max Komes

Medical Student

Roisin McManus Lab

+49 228 43302 347

Bio Summary

Max Komes is a 3th year medical student at the university of Bonn, Germany and currently undertaking his medical thesis in the Heneka Lab, DZNE since October 2020. Here he is examining the central mechanisms of neuroinflammation as a basis of Alzheimer’s pathology. He is especially interested in exploring the inflammatory impact on phagocytotic activity and degradation of Aβ-plaques and the role of different metabolic parameters on phagocytosis.

Education

2020-present

Doctor of Medicine Candidate in the Dept. for Neurodegenerative Diseases and Geriatric Psychiatry/Neurology ,Heneka lab, University Hospital of Bonn and German Center forNeurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Germany

2018-2019

Matriculation University of Bonn, Training process “Krebsregister” (ZfKD, RKI) by department of urology EKO

Prizes/Awards

2017

Graduation Award, CertLingua – CertiLingua Label of Excellence for Plurilingual, European and International competences

Laboratory adress

German Center of Neurodegenerative Diseases

DZNE, Venusberg Campus 1, 51237 Bonn, Germany

max.komes@dzne.de

www.dzne.de