Prof. Dr. Martin Dichgans

Research focus: Stroke, genetics of stroke, dementia; vascular dementia, neuroimaging, migraine

Key words: Clinical neuroscience, neurogenetics

GSN studentsE

• Current: Judit Gonzalez-Gallego, Evan Stanton, Vanessa Granja Burbano

• Graduated: Dr. Steffen Tiedt, Dr. Manuel Lehm, Dr. Marios Georgakis
  

Selected publications:

See all: https://www.isd-research.de/dichgans-lab

2021

Malik R, Georgakis MK, Neitzel J, Rannikmäe K, Ewers M, Seshadri S, Sudlow CLM, Dichgans M. Midlife vascular risk factors and risk of incident dementia: Longitudinal cohort and Mendelian randomization analyses in the UK Biobank. Alzheimers Dement. 2021 Mar 22. doi: 10.1002/alz.12320. Epub ahead of print.

Georgakis MK, Malik R, Li X, Gill D, Levin MG, Vy HMT, Judy R, Ritchie M, Verma SS; Regeneron Genetics Center, Nadkarni GN, Damrauer SM, Theodoratou E, Dichgans M. Genetically Downregulated Interleukin-6 Signaling Is Associated With a Favorable Cardiometabolic Profile: A Phenome-Wide Association Study. Circulation. 2021 Mar 16;143(11):1177-1180. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.120.052604. Epub 2021 Mar 15.

2020

Georgakis MK, de Lemos JA, Ayers C, Wang B, Björkbacka H, Pana TA, Thorand B, Sun C, Fani L, Malik R, Dupuis J, Engström G, Orho-Melander M, Melander O, Boekholdt SM, Zierer A, Elhadad MA, Koenig W, Herder C, Hoogeveen RC, Kavousi M, Ballantyne CM, Peters A, Myint PK, Nilsson J, Benjamin EJ, Dichgans M. Association of Circulating Monocyte Chemoattractant Protein-1 Levels With Cardiovascular Mortality: A Meta-analysis of Population-Based Studies. JAMA Cardiol. 2020 Nov 4. Epub ahead of print.

Kopczak A, Schindler A, Bayer-Karpinska A, Koch ML, Sepp D, Zeller J, Strecker C, Hempel JM, Yuan C, Malik R, Wollenweber FA, Boeckh-Behrens T, Cyran CC, Helck A, Harloff A, Ziemann U, Poli S, Poppert H, Dichgans M, Saam T. Complicated Carotid Artery Plaques as a Cause of Cryptogenic Stroke. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2020 Nov 10;76(19):2212-2222.

Tiedt S, Brandmaier S, Kollmeier H, Duering M, Artati A, Adamski J, Klein M, Liebig T, Holdt LM, Teupser D, Wang-Sattler R, Schwedhelm E, Gieger C, Dichgans M. Circulating metabolites differentiate acute ischemic stroke from stroke mimics. Ann Neurol. 2020 Aug 3. Epub ahead of print.

Asare Y, Campbell-James TA, Bokov Y, Yu LL, Prestel M, El Bounkari O, Roth S, Megens RT, Straub T, Thomas K, Yan G, Schneider M, Ziesch N, Tiedt S, Silvestre-Roig C, Braster Q, Huang Y, Schneider M, Malik R, Haffner C, Liesz A, Soehnlein O, Bernhagen J, Dichgans M. Histone Deacetylase 9 Activates IKK to Regulate Atherosclerotic Plaque Vulnerability. Circ Res. 2020 Jun 17. Epub ahead of print.

Georgakis MK, Malik R, Anderson CD, Parhofer KG, Hopewell JC, Dichgans M. Genetic determinants of blood lipids and cerebral small vessel disease: role of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol. Brain. 2020 Jan 22. pii: awz413.