German Rheumatism Research Centre Berlin, Charité Universitätsmedizin

Eicke Latz

Berlin Science Week
2026
Speaker

Prof. Dr. Eicke Latz studied medicine in Göttingen and Berlin and worked in intensive care at Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin. In 2001 he moved to Boston University, then UMass Chan Medical School where he obtained his first Professorship. In 2010 he founded the Institute for Innate Immunity in Bonn. Since 2023 he has been Scientific Director of the German Rheumatism Research Centre Berlin and Professor of Experimental Rheumatology at Charité. He studies how innate immunity drives inflammation in rheumatic, cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases. To translate his discoveries, he co-founded IFM Therapeutics (2017), Dioscure Therapeutics (2020), Stealth Biotech (2020) and Odyssey Therapeutics (2021). A highly cited Leopoldina member, he received the 2018 Leibniz Prize.

Events by this speaker

05.11.

Mexican Science Day 1: From knowledge to action

Mexico and Germany connect technology, health, climate and society through scientific cooperation.

H.E. Francisco Quiroga, VIOLETA VÁZQUEZ-ROJAS MALDONADO, Marcus Pleyer, Sabina Lopez Ennen, Michael Harms, Angélica Cuapio Gómez, Robert Cárcamo Mallén, MARIANO NICOLAS CRUZ BOURNAZOU, Yolanda Irasema Chirino López, Mario Andrés De Leo Winkler, Nayar Alejandro Durán Hernández, Eicke Latz, Julian Polte, Mitchel Polte, Francisco Javier Morales Serrano, Ana Martínez Hernández, Stefan Sieber, Karen M. Siegel, María del Carmen Avendaño-Rito, Lorena Dini, Jorge Enrique Caballero Hernández, Connor Smieja, Hannes Keiling, Simon Blume

By: Embassy of Mexico in Germany, Leibniz-Zentrum für Agrarlandschaftsforschung (ZALF), Humboldt University Berlin, UNAM Alemania, Falling Walls Engage Hub Mexico, Falling Walls Foundation gGmbH, Autonomous Metropolitan University (UAM)