Eva-Maria Mandelkow

Eva-Maria Mandelkow is a German neuroscientist and Alzheimer's disease researcher at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn.

Biography Eva-Maria Mandelkow studied medicine in Hamburg and Heidelberg, qualifying in 1968. After three years of medical internships, she began doctoral studies at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, investigating the enzyme kinetics of the motor protein myosin. She graduated in 1973 with a Ph.D. in biochemistry, then undertook postdoctoral training at Brandeis University in Massachusetts (1974–1975) researching cytoskeletal proteins. She continued to work in this area after returning to the Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg as a staff scientist (1977–1985). In 1986 she moved with her husband and colleague, , to lead research teams at the (MPASMB) located within the DESY facility, Hamburg. Mandelkow won the Hans and Ilse Breuer Foundation Alzheimer's Research Award in 2007. Eva-Maria and her husband were jointly awarded the Metlife Foundation Award for Medical Research in Alzheimer's Disease in 2009, and a Khalid Iqbal Lifetime Achievement Award in Alzheimer’s Disease Research from the Alzheimer's Association in 2013.