Anne-Katrin Pröbstel

Center of Neurology,
Department of Neuroimmunology,
University Hospital and University Bonn,
German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE)
Bonn | Germany

Anne-Katrin Pröbstel is a neurologist clinician-scientist and the Chair of the Center of Neurology and Director of the Clinic for Neuroimmunology at the University Hospital Bonn (Germany). She holds a dual position as research group leader at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases in Bonn and at the Departments of Biomedicine and Clinical Research as well as the Research Center for Clinical Neuroimmunology and Neuroscience at the University in Basel (Switzerland). 

Anne-Katrin studied medicine at the Ludwig Maximilian University (Germany,) Harvard Medical School (USA) and Université Paris-Diderot (France) and received her doctoral degree from the Max-Planck Institute of Neurobiology and Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich (Germany). After her clinical training in neurology and immunology at the University Hospital of Basel followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco (USA), she returned to Basel as a Swiss National Science Eccellenza Professor and senior physician before moving to Bonn in 2025. 

Anne-Katrin received several awards, including the Ellerman-Award from the Swiss Neurological Society, the Fritz-and-Ursula-Melchers-Postdoctoral Prize from the German Society of Immunology, the Sobek Junior Award from the German Multiple Sclerosis Society, and the Swiss Immunology Early Career Award from the Swiss Society for Allergology and Immunology. Anne-Katrin serves as deputy editor of Neurology®, Neuroimmunology, Neuroinflammation and is an editorial board of several neuroimmunological journals. She is further a member of the scientific steering committee of the French Multiple Sclerosis Society (France Sclérose en Plaques) and an executive board member of the International Women in Multiple Sclerosis (iWiMS). 

The Pröbstel lab interfaces immunology, microbiology and neurosciences and centers on understanding the interaction of microbiota and immune cells in neuroinflammatory diseases with a focus on multiple sclerosis, MOGAD, NMOSD, autoimmune encephalitis and related disorders. Research in the Pröbstel Lab integrates a broad spectrum of methods combining human immunology and immune repertoire analysis, single-cell bioinformatics, microbiota sequencing, and experimental (gnotobiotic) mouse models.