Eicke Latz

Eicke Latz founded the Institute of Innate Immunity at the University of Bonn in 2010, is Adjunct Professor at the Centre for Molecular Inflammation Research at the Norwegian Technical University in Trondheim, and heads a research group at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) in Bonn. His research focuses on identifying the most proximal mechanisms of innate immune activation in chronic inflammatory diseases. His laboratory studies the mechanisms involved in inflammasome activation and regulation, investigates how nucleic acids are sensed by Toll-like receptors and cytosolic sensors, and performs systems approaches to decipher innate immune signaling pathway regulation. Eicke is listed in the World’s Most Influential Minds by Thompson Reuters and is a highly cited scientist in immunology in 2014 and 2015.

Eicke studied Medicine in Göttingen and Berlin and worked as an intensive care physician at the Charité Hospital in Berlin. Starting 2000 he received post-doctoral training at Boston University and UMass Medical School in the Golenbock laboratory and he joined the UMass Faculty in 2006.