Prof. Dr. med. Albert C. Ludolph

Ärztlicher Direktor
Klinik für Neurologie der Universität Ulm, RKU
Telefon: 0731 177-1201
Fax: 0731 177-1202
E-Mail: albert.ludolph@rku.de
Personal Data
Name: Albert Christian Ludolph
Citizenship: German
Place & Date of Birth: Bad Pyrmont (Germany), Dezember 12th, 1953
Address: Department of Neurology, University of Ulm, Germany, Oberer Eselsberg 45, 89081 Ulm
Professional Experience
1979-1984 | Resident, Board Neurology and Psychiatry (Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, University of Münster FRG)(Prof. G. Brune, Prof. R. Tölle) |
1984-1985 | Stipend, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft: Institute of Neurotoxicology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York (Prof. P.S. Spencer, Prof. H.H. Schaumburg) |
1985-1989 | Staff, Department of Neurology, University of Münster (Prof. G. Brune) |
1987 | Habilitation, Faculty of Medicine, University of Münster, C2 Professor of Neurology |
1990-1992 | Staff Scientist, Visiting Assoc. Prof., Center for Research on Occuputational and Environmental Toxicology, Portland (Oregon) |
1992 | Staff, Department of Epileptology, University of Bonn (Prof. C.E. Elger) |
1993-1996 | C3 Professor of Neurology, Vice Chairman, Department of Neurology, Humboldt University Berlin (Prof. K.-M. Einhäupl) |
1996 | C4 Professor of Neurology, Chair, Department of Neurology, University of Ulm |
2003 - | Chair (elected) Academic Neuroscience Center, University of Ulm |
2005-2009 | Deputy Chair and Chair (elected), European ALS-MND-Group |
2007- | Chair (elected) ALS panel of the EFNS and EAN (since 2014, together with Prof. Vincenzo Silani) |
2008- | Scientific Advisory Board Thierry Latran Foundation |
2008- | Chair, Scientific Council of Deutsche Stiftung Querschnittlähmung (DSQ) |
2008- | Chair Scientific Council Deutsche Gesellschaft für Muskelkranke |
2009- | Scientific Advisory Board Member of the Stifterverband der Schilling-Research-Groups for Translational Neuroscience |
2009- | Chair (elected), World Federation of Neurology, ALS Research Group |
2009- | Reviewer for Neuroscience Board of the German Research Foundation (DFG) |
2010-2014 | Vice Dean of the Medical Faculty of Ulm |
2013- | >Chair (elected), World Federation of Neurology, ALS Research Group |
2014- | Delegate of the German Society of Neurology at the World Federation of Neurology |
Publications
| Freischmidt A, Müller K, Zondler L, Weydt P, Volk AE, Božič AL, Walter M, Bonin M, Mayer B, von Arnim CA, Otto M, Dieterich C, Holzmann K, Andersen PM, Ludolph AC, Danzer KM, Weishaupt JH. Serum microRNAs in patients with genetic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and pre-manifest mutation carriers. Brain 2014;137(Pt 11):2938-50 |
| Müller K, Andersen PM, Hübers A, Marroquin N, Volk AE, Danzer KM, Meitinger T, Ludolph AC, Strom TM, Weishaupt JH. Two novel mutations in conserved codons indicate that CHCHD10 is a gene associated with motor neuron disease. Brain 2014;137(Pt 12):e309 |
| Brettschneider J, Del Tredici K, Irwin DJ, Grossman M, Robinson JL, Toledo JB, Fang L, Van Deerlin VM, Ludolph AC, Lee VM, Braak H, Trojanowski JQ. Sequential distribution of pTDP-43 pathology in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD). Acta Neuropathol 2014;127(3):423-39 |
| Brettschneider J, Arai K, Del Tredici K, Toledo JB, Robinson JL, Lee EB, Kuwabara S, Shibuya K, Irwin DJ, Fang L, Van Deerlin VM, Elman L, McCluskey L, Ludolph AC, Lee VM, Braak H, Trojanowski JQ. TDP-43 pathology and neuronal loss in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis spinal cord. Acta Neuropathol 2014;128(3):423-37 |
| Kassubek J, Müller HP, Del Tredici K, Brettschneider J, Pinkhardt EH, Lulé D, Böhm S, Braak H, Ludolph AC. Diffusion tensor imaging analysis of sequential spreading of disease in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis confirms patterns of TDP-43 pathology. Brain 2014;137(Pt 6):1733-40 |
| Logroscino G, Ludolph AC. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: new ideas from cancer. Lancet Neurol 2014;13(11):1067-8 |
| Storch A, Kassubek J, Tumani H, Vladimirtsev VA, Hermann A, Osakovsky VL, Baranov VA, Krivoshapkin VG, Ludolph AC. Communicating hydrocephalus following eosinophilic meningitis is pathogenic for chronic Viliuisk encephalomyelitis in Northeastern Siberia. PLoS One. 2014 28;9(2):e84670 |
| Brettschneider J, Del Tredici K, Toledo JB, Robinson JL, Irwin DJ, Grossman M, Suh E, Van Deerlin VM, Wood EM, Baek Y, Kwong L, Lee EB, Elman L, McCluskey L, Fang L, Feldengut S, Ludolph AC, Lee VM, Braak H, Trojanowski JQ. Stages of pTDP-43 pathology in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Ann Neurol 2013;74:20-38 |
| Braak H, Brettschneider J, Ludolph AC, Lee VM, Trojanowski JQ, Tredici KD. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis - a model of corticofugal axonal spread. Nat Rev Neurol 2013;9(12):708-714 |
| Ludolph AC. Oligodendroglia: new players in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Brain 2013;136(Pt 2):370-1 |