Name Bart Strooper | ||
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Education Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | ||
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Bart De Strooper is a Belgian molecular biologist and professor at the KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium). He was the director of the VIB Center for the Biology of Disease at KU Leuven (now VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research). De Strooper obtained an MD at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in 1985 and a PhD in 1992. He did a Postdoc at the EMBL in Heidelberg Germany in 1994. He is VIB Group leader since 1999, and Scientific Director, from 2007 to 2016. In December 2016 he became the director of the UK Dementia Research Institute. The institute, which has funding of £250m, was announced in May 2016.
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His research interest are the secretases which are proteases which cleave the amyloid peptide from the amyloid precursor protein (APP). The amyloid peptide is the main constituent of the plaques in the brain in Alzheimer's Disease.
Awards
Together with Christian Haass he received the Potamkin Prize in 2002.