Curriculum vitae Prof. Dr. Arthur Liesz

Training

• 2003 - 2010 Medical studies at the Universities Würzburg and Heidelberg
• 2006 - 2009 Training in Experimental Immunology, Department of Molecular Immunology (Dr. E. Suri-Payer), German Center for Cancer Research (DKFZ), Heidelberg
• 2006 - 2010 Medical thesis at the Department of Neurology (supervisor: Dr. R. Veltkamp), University Heidelberg, Germany (summa cum laude)
• 2010 - 2019 Residency in Clinical Neurology at the Department of Neurology in Heidelberg (Prof. Dr. W. Hacke) and Munich (Prof. Dr. M. Dieterich)
• 2016 Habilitation on the topic “Immunological Mechanisms in Acute Brain Ischemia”
• 2019 Facharzt/Specialty qualification in Neurology

Academic positions & appointments

• 2010 - 2013 Clinical Scientist, University Hospital Heidelberg, Department of Neurology
• 2012 Guest researcher in the laboratory of Dr. Serge Rivest, Université Laval, Canada
• 2012 - 2013 Junior Group leader „Translational Stroke Research“, University Heidelberg
• since 2013 Clinician-Scientist (SyNergy Exzellence Cluster) at the Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research
• since 2016 Emmy-Noether Group Leader
• since 2018 Group leader with an ERC Grant
• since 2020 W2 tt W3 Professorship for Stroke-Immunology

Membership in Editorial Boards

• Editor of Journal of Neuroinflammation

Awards & honors

• 2004 - 2010 Scholar of the Klaus Murmann Fellowship Program
• 2013 Postdoctoral scholarship award, Daimler-Benz Foundation
• 2013 Independent group leader award - Clinician Scientist Program by the Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy)
• 2015 Young Investigator Award, European Stroke Organization
• 2018 ERC Starting Grant
• 2018 Rolf Becker Prize

Key publications

• Cramer JV, Gesierich B, Roth S, Dichgans M, Düring M, Liesz A. In vivo widefield calcium imaging of the mouse cortex for analysis of network connectivity in health and brain disease. Neuroimage. Oct 1;199:570-584 (2019)
• Cai R, Pan C, Ghasemigharagoz A, […], Rempfler M, Xavier ALR, Kress BT, Benakis C, Steinke H, Liebscher S, Bechmann I, Liesz A, Menze B, Kerschensteiner M, Nedergaard M, Ertürk A. Panoptic imaging of transparent mice reveals whole-body neuronal projections and skull-meninges connections. Nat Neurosci. Feb;22(2):317-327 (2019)
• Roth S, Singh V, Tiedt S, [...] Harris HE, Engelhardt B, Bianchi ME, Vivien D, Bernhagen J, Dichgans M, Liesz A. Brain-released alarmins and stress response synergize in accelerating atherosclerosis progression after stroke. Sci Trans Med, Mar 14;10(432) (2018)
• Llovera G, Benakis C, Enzmann G, Cai R, Arzberger T, Ghasemigharagoz A, Mao X, Malik R, Lazarevic I, Liebscher S, Ertürk A, Meissner L, Vivien D, Haffner C, Plesnila N, Montaner J, Engelhardt B, Liesz A. The choroid plexus is a key cerebral invasion route for T cells after stroke. Acta Neuropathol 134:851-68 (2017)
• Singh V, Roth S, Llovera G, Sadler R, Garzetti D, Stecher B, Dichgans M, Liesz A. Microbiota dysbiosis controls the neuroinflammatory response after stroke. The Journal of Neuroscience 36:7428-40 (2016)
• Llovera G, Hoffmann K, Roth S, Salas-Perdomo A, Ferrer-Ferrer M, Perego C, Zanier ER, Mamrak U, Rex A, Party H, Agin V, Fauchon C, Orset C, Haelewyn B, De Simioni MG, Dirnagl U, Grittner U, Planas AM, Plesnila N, Vivien D, Liesz A. Results of the first preclinical randomized controlled (pRCT) multicenter trial: Anti-CD49d treatment for acute brain ischemia. Sci Transl Med 7:299ra121 (2015)
• Liesz A, Dalpke A, Mracsko E, Antoine DJ, Roth S, Zhou W, Yang H, Na SY, Akhisaroglu M, Fleming T, Eigenbrod T, Nawroth PP, Tracey KJ, Veltkamp R. DAMP Signaling is a Key Pathway Inducing Immune Modulation after Brain Injury. The Journal of Neuroscience 35:583-98 (2015)
• Liesz A, Zhou W, Na SY, Hämmerling GJ, Garbi N, Karcher S, Mracsko E, Backs J, Rivest S, Veltkamp R. Boosting Regulatory T cells limits neuroinflammation in brain ischemia. The Journal of Neuroscience 33:17350-62 (2013)
• Liesz A, Zhou W, Mracskó É, Karcher S, Bauer H, Schwarting S, Sun L, Bruder D, Stegemann S, Cerwenka A, Sommer C, Dalpke AH, Veltkamp R. Inhibition of lymphocyte trafficking shields the brain against deleterious neuroinflammation after stroke. Brain 134:704-20 (2011)
• Liesz A, Suri-Payer E, Veltkamp C, Doerr H, Sommer C, Rivest S, Giese T, Veltkamp R. Regulatory T cells are key cerebroprotective immunomodulators in acute experimental stroke. Nature Medicine 15:192-9 (2009)