Meet Carmen Nussbaum

During my biology studies I became fascinated by the concept that a single protein can cause infectious diseases by replicating its own conformation. From that moment on, this topic has never left my mind. I investigated the mechanisms of prion replication in my doctoral thesis work with Ina Vorberg (now at the DZNE, Bonn) and Hermann Schätzl (now at the University of Calgary, Canada) at the Technical University of Munich. After obtaining my PhD, I joined the group of Rick Morimoto at Northwestern University in Evanston, USA, as a postdoc to generate a prion model in C. elegans. In 2014, I started to establish my own group at the ZMBH and DKFZ in Heidelberg. Here, we investigate cellular mechanisms underlying the propagation and spreading of pathological proteins, such as α-synuclein or Tau.

I am always up for a game of table soccer during a break (a tradition that already started at the Institute of Virology in Munich). In my free time I like to travel and do sports, such as triathlon.

Email:  carmen.nussbaum@med.uni-muenchen.de
Phone: +49-89-2180-72603
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