Brief Curriculum Vitae:   Institution Degree Year Subject University of Würzburg, Germany Dipl. Chem.  1987 Chemistry  University of Würzburg, Germany Ph.D.  1991 Biochemistry  University of Würzburg, Germany 1992 Neurochemistry  Garvan Institute, Sydney 1994 Molecular Neurobiology  Awards: 1997 Prize for "Brain Research in Gerontology" of the Universität Witten-Herdecke, Germany 2003  Rene-Schubert-Prize for Experimental Gerontology of the German Society for Aging Research Employment: 1995 - 1999: Lecturer Physiological Chemistry I (Biocenter) University of Würzburg, Germany 1999 Senior Lecturer Dept. of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry University of Würzburg, Germany 2000 - 2003 Senior Research Fellow/ A/Prof Neuroimmunological Cell Biology Unit University of Leipzig, Germany

Selected Publications:

• Münch G, Schicktanz D, Behme A, Gerlach M, Palm D, Riederer P, Schinzel R (1999) Amino acid specificity of glycation and AGE-protein crosslinking reactivites determined with a dipeptide spot library. Nature Biotechnol 17: 1006 - 1010
• Loske C, Gerdemann A, Schepl W, Wycislo M, Schinzel R, Palm D, Riederer R, Münch G (2000) Transition metal mediated glycoxidation accelerates crosslinking of ß-amyloid peptide. Eur J Biochem 267:4171-4178.
• Wong A, Dukic-Stefanovic S, Gasic-Milenkovic J, Schinzel R, Wiesinger H, Riederer P, Münch G (2001) Anti-inflammatory antioxidants attenuate the expression of inducible nitric oxide synthase mediated by advanced glycation endproducts in murine microglia. Eur J Neurosci 14: 1-8
• Sajithlal G, Huttunen H, Rauvala H, Münch G (2002) Receptor for advanced glycation end products (RAGE) plays a more important role in cellular survival than neurite outgrowth during retinoic acid-induced differentiation of neuroblastoma cells. J Biol Chem 277: 6888-97
• Münch G, Shepherd CE, McCann H, Brooks WS, Kwok JBJ, Arendt T, Hallupp M, Schofield PR, Martins RN, Halliday GM (2002) Intraneuronal advanced glycation endproducts in presenilin-1 Alzheimer's disease. Neuroreport 13: 601-4.
• Gasic-Milenkovic J, Dukic-Stefanovic S, Deuther-Conrad W, Gärtner U, Münch G (2003) ß-amyloid peptide potentiates inflammatory responses induced by lipopolysaccharide, interferon gamma and "advanced glycation endproducts" in a murine microglia cell line. Eur J Neurosci 17 :813-21
• Münch G, Gasic-Milenkovic J, Dukic-Stefanovic S, Kuhla B, Heinrich K, Riederer P, Huttunen HJ, Founds H, Sajithlal G. (2003) Microglial activation induces cell death, inhibits neurite outgrowth and causes neurite retraction in differentiated neuroblastoma cells  Exp Brain Res 150: 1-8.
• Münch G, Apelt J, Kientsch-Engel R, Stahl P, Lüth HJ, Schliebs R (2003) Advanced glycation endproducts (AGEs) and pro-inflammatory cytokines in transgenic Tg2576 mice with amyloid plaque pathology. J Neurochem 86: 283-289
•  Dukic-Stefanovic S, Gasic-Milenkovic J, Deuther-Conrad W, Münch G (2003) Pro-inflammatory signal transduction pathways in mouse microglia N-11 cells activated by advanced glycation endproducts. J Neurochem 87: 2609-2615

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