Patrick Oeckl, PhD profile page

Dr. Patrick Oeckl, is a neuroscientist and head of the research group for Translational Mass Spectrometry and Biomarker Research at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases Ulm (DZNE) and Ulm University Hospital, Department of Neurology, Germany. His interest is to uncover pathophysiological mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases and the discovery, validation and implementation of biomarkers in CSF and blood to improve diagnosis, personalized medicine and drug development. He has more than 15 years of experience in biomarker discovery and validation in academia and industry using mass spectrometry and immunoassays with a high expertise in the challenging measurement of low abundant proteins by mass spectrometry in biofluids such as synucleins or neurofilaments. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals.