Juliane Winkelmann
Director Institute of Neurogenomics“Genomic technologies and the application of AI in genomic medicine are enabling a paradigm shift in medicine, paving the way from diagnosis and treatment to prediction and prevention of disease.”
“Genomic technologies and the application of AI in genomic medicine are enabling a paradigm shift in medicine, paving the way from diagnosis and treatment to prediction and prevention of disease.”
About
Juliane Winkelmann is Director of the Institute of Neurogenomics at Helmholtz Munich and holds the Chair of Neurogenetics at Technische Universität München. Previously, she was Professor of Neuroscience at Stanford University in California, USA. She is a specialist in neurology and human genetics and conducts research on the genetic basis of common and rare diseases.
She studied at the Semmelweis University in Budapest, Hungary and Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, Germany. During her studies she also trainied in Austria, Vienna, China Bejing as well as in UK, London. As a research group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry Munich in collaboration with an international consortium, she identified for the first tine genetic factors for restless legs syndrome (RLS), a prime example for a complex genetic disorder. She is founder and lead PIi of the International EU-RLS-GENE Consortium, the largest scientific collaboration network for RLS worldwide and her dedicated is to solve the underlying biology.
Her group identified numerous genetic factors for sleep and movement disorders such as e.g. Parkinson’s disease, dystonia, narcolepsy and insomnia. Her work is dedicated to providing an accurate diagnosis, enabling individualized therapy, and preventing the onset of disease by precise prediction.
Her goal is to apply digital health to routine diagnostics by combining genomic medicine and advanced AI methods. She is a member of key genomic data networks such as the German Human Genome Archive (GHGA) and genom.DE.
She has received international awards for her genomics discoveries, including the RLS collaboration award of the International RLS Study group, the Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award from the American Sleep Research Society and a Life Science Award from the American Academy of Neurology. She is a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.